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Guy Bourdin. follow me
Exhibition February 28 − May 17, 2020
In the Center for Photography named after Lumiere brothers exhibition opened“Guy Bourdin. Follow me"- A retrospective of the French photographer, one of the most influential masters of the 20th century, the innovator who made the revolution in gloss.
The exhibition presents more than 50 of the most recognizable works of the author of different years, from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, who began his career with painting and became the legend of commercial photography.
Guy Bourdin took inspiration from literature, film and art history, inspired by the works of Man Ray and Rene Magritte, photographs of Edward Weston, film works of Louis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock. He ordered the blue paint to be poured into the surf, because the sea does not look bright enough. And coat the models from head to toe with glue and cover with pearls, at the risk of poisoning the girls along the way. A student of Man Ray and a self-taught photographer, Guy Bourdin considered himself primarily an artist. He did not care about success, wealth and access to beautiful women. He was only interested in pictures, only the desire to express himself and push the boundaries of photography, to instill the qualities of classical painting in the commercial genre.
Perfectionist, visionary, provocative, scandalous, great and terrible - clichés that stuck to Guy Bourdain himself all the more so because he did not give interviews, did not organize exhibitions, did not publish catalogs, and avoided awards. Thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, he shot fashion for the French Vogue. He added to the previously refined gloss of the actual Hitchcock suspense, and to the advertisement, which had previously shown the goods face, - of surrealism. In 1991, he died, was awarded a note in a Parisian newspaper and left behind a lot of questions, the search for answers to which we are already engaged in in the 21st century.
Prepared by materialsCenter for Photography Lumiere brothers.
Official siteGuy Bourdin.
The exhibition presents more than 50 of the most recognizable works of the author of different years, from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, who began his career with painting and became the legend of commercial photography.
Guy Bourdin took inspiration from literature, film and art history, inspired by the works of Man Ray and Rene Magritte, photographs of Edward Weston, film works of Louis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock. He ordered the blue paint to be poured into the surf, because the sea does not look bright enough. And coat the models from head to toe with glue and cover with pearls, at the risk of poisoning the girls along the way. A student of Man Ray and a self-taught photographer, Guy Bourdin considered himself primarily an artist. He did not care about success, wealth and access to beautiful women. He was only interested in pictures, only the desire to express himself and push the boundaries of photography, to instill the qualities of classical painting in the commercial genre.
Perfectionist, visionary, provocative, scandalous, great and terrible - clichés that stuck to Guy Bourdain himself all the more so because he did not give interviews, did not organize exhibitions, did not publish catalogs, and avoided awards. Thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, he shot fashion for the French Vogue. He added to the previously refined gloss of the actual Hitchcock suspense, and to the advertisement, which had previously shown the goods face, - of surrealism. In 1991, he died, was awarded a note in a Parisian newspaper and left behind a lot of questions, the search for answers to which we are already engaged in in the 21st century.
Prepared by materialsCenter for Photography Lumiere brothers.
Official siteGuy Bourdin.
