Musée Nicéphore Niépce

Jean-François Bauret, Percevoir, Recevoir

14 February-17 Mei 2020

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Post-war reconstruction, the rise of advertising photography, the Trente Glorieuses, the sexual "liberation" of the 1960s: when Jean-François Bauret began his career in the late 1950s, anything is possible for a young person Self-taught photographer, enthusiastic, seductive and very well surrounded. Spearhead of emerging, overactive advertising photography, Jean-François Bauret embodies in his own way half a century of the short history of photography.

It is for this reason that the Jean-François Bauret fund joined the collections of the Nicéphore Niépce museum in 2016. After three years of inventory, digitization and study by the museum's teams, nothing comes to contradict two evidences: Jean-François Bauret is an advertising photographer and a prolix and transgressive fashion photographer; he is also an artist and portrait painter fully inscribed in his time. Archives of rare breadth and diversity show a photographer who cannot be confined to two shots and a few series.

The exhibition "Jean-François Bauret: perceive, receive" offers a retrospective of the artist's career in almost four hundred and fifty photographs. For the first time, the selection made from the four hundred thousand phototypes of the collection, will present a joint rereading of his commissioned works and his artistic creations.

Jean-François Bauret monographie, Editions Contrejour, 2018, ISBN : 9791090294325

Image captions: 1. Serge Charchoune, 1958, Tirage sur papier au gélatino-bromure d’argent, 2. Claude, projet publicitaire pour le Printemps années 1960, Tirage sur papier au gélatino-bromure d’argent