Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
30 January to 12 May 2013
Gilles Caron: After a confrontation between Catholic protesters and Ulster police, Northern Ireland, August 1969, ©Fondation Gilles Caron
The exhibition entitled Gilles Caron, Le conflit intérieur presents, in 150 pictures and documents, the work of this photoreporter who constantly questioned the purpose of his commitment.
Presenting archive material – original prints, negatives, contact sheets, documents – the exhibition enables us to rediscover one of the most important figures in photojournalism during the second half of the twentieth century. Caron’s “inner conflict” was that of a whole generation that wondered about the implications of photojournalism and, more generally, its meaning. For Caron, war was there before his camera lens, but it was also at the centre of his awareness.
The exhibition, organised by Michel Poivert, professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Jean-Christophe Blaser, curator of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, is co-produced by the latter museum and the Gilles Caron Foundation.
The book, Gilles Caron, le conflit intérieur, is published for the occasion by Photosynthèses. A film by Séverine Lathuillière (Naïa Productions) accompanies the exhibition.
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