Larry Clark: Kiss The Past Hello.
Unfortunately if you are under 18 you can kiss this show bye bye—it’s been banned to minors.
The Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris presents France’s first Larry Clark retrospective. This exhibit will showcase over 200 original prints—most of them unpublished—taken over 50 years.

October 8, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Lary Clark at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
11 Avenue du Président Wilson
75016 Paris
tel: 01.53.67.40.00
Metro: Iéna

Tues-Sun: 10am-6pm (Ticket window closes at 5.45pm)
Exhibits: open until 10pm on Thursday.
Closed on Monday

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Before he passed away Willy Ronis wished to see his work exhibited in Paris in celebration of his one hundredth birthday. Today, to honor his wish, the Musée de la Monnaie is showing about 150 of his photographs, some famous, others unpublished to this date.

April 16 - August 22, 2010
Willy Ronis at Musée de la Monnaie
11 Quai de Conti
75006 Paris
tel: 01.40.46.56.66
Metro: Pont Neuf, Odéon

Tu-Sun: 11am-7pm (until 9.30pm Thursday)
(Ticket window closes 30 min before closing time)
Closed on Monday

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“Their canon of saints reads: Pierre Cardin, Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Fendi, Ferré, Gaultier, Gucci, Jourdan, Miyake, Prada, Saint Laurent, Versace, Yamamoto. A typical ballad runs: “Listen my love. On our wedding day/The label will be Torrente/The label will be Giorgio Armani/The label will be Daniel Hechter/The label for the shoes will be J. M. Weston.” Brussels, their shopping mecca, is referred to in Congolese as Lola, meaning paradise.
These are sapeurs, acolytes of a 25-year-old movement called la SAPE—La Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (aka Kitendi, the religion of the cloth)—that revolves around the possession of the most expensive, most luxurious, most extravagant fashion in the world. Followers of SAPE wear $10,000 jackets and $500 shoes, but these mostly young Congolese men otherwise barely eke out a living in the rubble of Kinshasa and Brazzaville or the ghettos of Paris and Brussels, washing dishes or washing bodies, and sometimes selling their own.” -Anna Weinberg

October 15, 2009 - July 11, 2010
L’univers de la SAPE at Musée Dapper
35 bis Rue Paul Valéry
75016 Paris
tel: 01.45.00.91.75
Metro: Victor Hugo, Charles de Gaulle - Etoile
RER: Charles de Gaulle - Etoile

M, Wed-Sun: 11am-7pm
Closed on Tuesday

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In 1951, Izis was one of the five French photographers, along with Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis and Cartier-Bresson, to be exhibited at the MoMA in New York. Today Paris City Hall is paying tribute to Izis with a major retrospective showcasing 270 photographs, books, magazines and documentary footage. This show focuses on his Parisian work.

January 20 - May 29, 2010
Izis at the Hotel de Ville
5 Rue Lobau
75004 Paris
tel: 01.42.76.40.40
Metro: Hotel-de-Ville

M-Sat: 10am-7pm (will open at 1.30pm only on March 2 and March 30)
Closed on Sunday and holidays.

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“This exhibition of some 120 of Lisette Model’s most representative photographs illustrates the very bold and direct approach to reality that made her one of the most singular proponents of street photography, the particular form of documentary photography that developed in New York during the 1940s, through the camerawork of such as Helen Levitt, Roy de Carava and Weegee.
Alongside the photographs, archive film and sound recordings of Lisette Model will evoke the photographer’s life, and there will be copies of magazines to which she contributed (Regards, Harper’s Bazaar, etc.)”

February 9 - June 6, 2010
Lisette Model at the Jeu de Paume
1 Place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
tel: 01.47.03.12.50
Metro: Concorde

Tu: 12pm-9pm
W-F: 12pm-7pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-7pm
(Ticket window closes 30 minutes before closing time)
Closed on Monday

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The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is exhibiting over one hundred original prints by Robert Doisneau, all of them taken in Paris and its suburbs between 1930 and 1966. While most of the photographs in this show are from the artist’s studio, some come from public and private collections.

January 13 - April 18, 2010
Robert Doisneau at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
2 Impasse Lebouis
75014 Paris
tel: 01.56.80.27.00
Metro: Gaité

Tu, Th, F, Sun: 1pm-6.30pm
W: 1pm-8.30pm
Sat: 11am-6.45pm
(Ticket window closes 30 minutes before closing time)
Closed on Monday

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“This show retraces Elliott Erwitt’s 60-year long career through more than 130 of his favorite photographs, including some rarely seen original prints. A photographer since 1948 and a member of Magnum Photos since 1953, he is a sharp, sometimes mischievous, observer of everyday life. Among his favorite subjects are children, dogs, beaches, politics and celebrities. A witness to the major events of the 20th century, this master of the instant is also a tireless wit, a subtle and poetic humorist whose work combines satire and melancholy. Elliott Erwitt has also made documentary films, some of which can be seen at the video library of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.”

February 3 - April 4, 2010
Elliott Erwitt at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie
7 Rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
tel: 01.44.78.75.00
Metro: Saint-Paul

Wed-Sun: 11am-8pm
(Ticket window closes at 7.30pm)
Free on Wednesday from 5pm-8pm
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

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“This exhibition, organized in collaboration with Agarttha Arte, is part of the project entitled “Piedmont: a definition”, an ongoing collection of commissioned work by major photographers. Following on from Alain Fleischer in 2007, William Klein in 2008 and Gabriele Basilico in 2009, Sarah Moon has been given carte blanche to produce an artistic work focusing on the Royal Theatre in Turin. Sarah Moon has created a compelling evocation of this wonderful Theatre, where timeless features of the stage and backstage areas recall the world of Lewis Caroll, tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and Shakespeare’s tragedies.”

February 3 - March 7, 2010
Sarah Moon at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5-7 Rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
tel: 01.44.78.75.00
Metro: Saint-Paul

W-Sun: 11am-8pm (Ticket window closes at 7.30pm)
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

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