The wonderland of a Parisian art studio….

I’m taking a contemporary danse class this year, with Chloé Bernier. A member of our group, Régis Ecosse, recently filmed one of our classes….here is his great film : « Chloé de 8 à 10″

En janvier, 2012, j’ai fais un stage avec le photo-film festival à Paris, Les Nuits Photographiques. Traductions, diffusion de l’appel à candidature aux pays anglophones….

La 2eme édition de Les Nuits Photographiques se passent au Parc Buttes Chaumont, chaque vendredi soir du juin – de la musique à la DJ La Dame Noir et des projections vidéos.

In January, 2012, I did an internship with the Parisian « picutres-in-motion » festival Les Nuits Photographiques. Translations and communication about the call for applications.

The Second Edition of Les Nuits Photographiques will take place in the Parc Butte Chaumont, every Friday evening in June – music by DJ La Dame Noir et video projections.

Thanks to my job with the web magazine www.lesphotographes.com, I’ve had the great pleasure to interview photographers that I admire. Recently, I’ve been speaking with….

Alexandra De Lapierre – ADELAP - read interview

Ian Paterson – read interview

Michael A. Smith – read interview

En rapport avec la photographie vernaculaire, j’ai interviewé  trois personnes qui sont à la fois des professeurs, des artistes, des collecteurs, des écrivains…..

In connection to vernacular photography, I’ve interviewed three people that are teachers, artists, collectors, writers…

Shawn Michelle Smith – read interview

Barbara Levine – read interview

Geoffrey Batchen - read interview

Lesphotographes.org donne de cours et de stages photo avec de photographes comme…

          Jean-François Bauret

                   Tristan Siegmann

                                Maxime Favier

                                             Rachael Woodson

Lesphotographes.org gives photo classes and workshops with photographers like Jean-François Bauret, Tristan Sigmman, Maxime Favier, Rachael Woodson.

Mon stage de quatre mois a fait que j’ai participer dans la recherche iconographique pour plusieurs livres chez la maison d’édition Gallimard Jeunesse et GEOGuide. J’ai eu le plaisir de travailler principalement avec Anaïck Bourhis, et un peu avec Véronique Masini.

My four-month internship allowed me to participate in the iconographic research for many books at the publishing company Gallimard Jeunesse and GEOGuide. I had the pleasure of working primarily with Anaïck Bourhis and a little with Véronique Masini.

Les livres de Gallimard dans cette photo :
GEOGuide Bourgogne
GEOGuide New York
Découverte des musiciens : Ella Fitzgerald
Folio Junior : Le secret d’Iona
Tothème : Le cinéma
Les Yeux de la Découverte : Les grands monuments de Paris

A paper written for a masters class conducted by François Brunet, at Paris 7

Wisconsin Death Trip: A Critical Analysis

                 -“As a historian, Mr. Lesy is a dramatist.” – Greil Marcus

Widely embraced as a cult classic, though critiqued as dramatic historical research, Michael Lesy’s 1973 book Wisconsin Death Trip raises many questions about the relationship between images and history, while pushing these very boundaries with an alternative presentation. In the following essay, I propose analyzing Lesy’s groundbreaking book, which opens a rich discussion of image theory and art history, with an emphasis on photography.

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pp. 509-510. JSTOR:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2117001.
Danbom, David. “Review: Untitled.” Agricultural History. Vol. 48, No. 4. (Oct., 1974), pp. 603-
604. JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3741404.
Gutman, Judith Mara. “Reading Pictures.” Reviews in American History. Vol. 1, No. 4 (Dec.
1973), pp. 488-492. The Johns Hopkins University Press. JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2701710.
Lesy, Michael. Wisconsin Death Trip. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1973.
Levine, Robert M. “Semiotics for the Historian: Photographers as Cultural Messengers.”
Reviews in American History, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sep. 1985), pp. 380-385. JSTOR:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702093.

Marcus, Greil. “A Record of Despair Born of a Single Image.” The New York Times Sunday, Nov. 28, 1999.
Mitchell, W.J.T. What do pictures want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2005.
Nemerov, Alexander. “What is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive Encounter.” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2008.
Lecture “Diane Arbus et Howard Nemerov : Une resemblance,” INHA, November 21, 2011.
Normand, Tom. Scottish Photography: A History. Luath Press Limited, Edinborough. 2007.
Peters, Marsha and Bernard Mergen. ““Doing the Rest”: The Uses of Photographs in American Studies.” American Quarterly. Vol. 29, No. 3, 1977. pp. 280-303. JSTOR
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“Wisconsin Death Trip” Official website of the 1999 film: http://www.wisconsindeathtrip.com/reviews.html
“Wisconsin Death Trip.” YOUTUBE video, posted May 22, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voKdxD07PgE

Un projet photo personnel : « In the Beginning » : un livre (fait avec Blurb) de photos de mes grand-parents, Opal et Eddie. De photos de leur première année passé ensemble – la rencontre jusqu’au mariage…

A personal photo project: « In the Beginning » : a book (made with Blurb) of photos of my grandparents, Opal and Eddie. Photos of their first year spent together – from their first meeting to the wedding…

Masters in Visual Culture, 1st year Thesis, Université Denis Diderot.  »(Un)Common Viewpoints: An Overview of Vernacular Group Photography. » 2011.

Excerpt of Introduction:

…“John Brinckerhoff Jackson’s greatest contribution was to reintroduce Americans to their vernacular landscape, to teach them to see again – and in a new light – the common elements of roads, houses, yards and towns.”  In reading about how to think about cultural landscapes, I began to reflect on my own home and cultural background, wondering if it was possible to learn something new from the familiar. The following research project will investigate the vernacular photography of Icelandic immigrants and their descendents in North America. The project is of a rather personal nature: my paternal grandfather grew up within such an immigrant family speaking Icelandic in Mountain, North Dakota. This genealogy makes me 1/4 Icelandic and so telling the story of this group of people is, in a way, telling my own story. J.B. Jackson’s work has, however, encouraged me to take a step back from my own culture and try to analyze it with a fresh perspective. »

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Handmade (L.E.G. made) projects