bernard faucon
Following the publication of the article in M le magazine du Monde on 29 November 2024, we have learned of the information mentioned concerning three complaints lodged against Mr Bernard Faucon. Agence VU’ has therefore decided to suspend distribution of all its images. This measure, taken as a precautionary measure, will remain in force until the conclusions of the judicial authorities are known.
Series
videos
My roads
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The process is simple : passengers of an unexpected moving vehicle, we travel on the most beautiful roads in the world, while a voice speaks to us. From cities to shores, from autopista to autopista, from brush to tops, the eyes sucked by the same escape point, the voice tell us its memory, its secrets, its childhood dreams, its fulgurations ; composing a poem unique in its kind.
If each words chosen by the author pierces us – just as quickness pierce the landscape -, it is because Bernard Faucon is not a driver like others. He understood that growing old was “not useless”, when it made it possible to “unlearn lessons”. His intimate pitch knows crossing paths, unintended ramifications : from the last indulgence of dreams to the hypothetical intersection of road and time, it is certainly an older memory than ours that takes the floor…
(Excerpt from Arthur Dreyfus’ text)
My roads – I, 2014
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My roads – II, 2014
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My roads – III, 2014
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Interviews
La période bleue
France Inter
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Interview by Arthur Dreyfus, 2011
” Quand il s’agit de créer, Bernard Faucon va tout de suite à l’essentiel et pour ce faire, il revient aux souvenirs qui lui sont essentiels. Ce sont ces instants qu’Arthur Dreyfus vous propose d’explorer ce soir, en plongeant, dans sa période bleue.”
Le procédé Fresson
Jean Réal
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A film directed by Jean Réal, 2010
“Jean Réal a réalisé un film sur le procédé de tirage photographique au charbon dit “procédé Fresson”, avec plusieurs artistes familiers de l’atelier.
Ici un fragment du film qui concerne Bernard Faucon.”
The liquidation of the shed by Jean-Claude Larrieu
Bernard Faucon
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2006
At the end of the retrospective exhibition at the MEP in Paris in 2006, Bernard Faucon offered to the visitors all the objects contained in his studio cabin in Provence.
books
AWARDS
Grand Prix national de la photographie (France)
For his entire work
1989
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