Patrick Tozani, Bernard Plossu, Valerie Jouve, Denis Darzacq, Frederic Nauczyciel \ Parisian Pedestrian

Within the framework of Russia-France Year 2010.
Exhibition Curator: Sophie Schmit

Le Piéton de Paris

“Le Piéton de Paris” (the Parisian Pedestrian) is an exhibition of nineteen large format images in black and white or colour, which takes spectators on a journey through part of the history of French photography.

The images play on perspectives, taking the visitor deep into the heart of each photograph.

Our “Piéton de Paris” strides through the city. He walks past the Eiffel Tower, admires the Pantheon or the Arc de Triomphe.

He passes beautiful Parisian ladies in the Bois de Boulogne, on the Quai aux Fleurs or seated on a terrace on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées.

Full of emotion, he stops to watch children playing in the Jardin des Tuileries, or crossing a Paris street wearing their period school smocks.

The Piéton de Paris also likes to relax alongside the fishermen of the Pont Saint Michel or a beret-topped “gavroche” or street urchin. Unless he prefers to take part in the celebrations of the national holiday on Bastille Day.

This “Piéton de Paris”, is historic artists such as Eugène Atget, Louis Vert, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Doisneau, the Séeberger brothers or the Neurdein brothers right up to contemporary photographic artists, such as Bernard Plossu, Denis Darzacq, Valérie Jouve or Frédéric Nauczyciel.

Patrick Tosani, meanwhile, composes the images of “his” intimate Paris in the form of a mosaic.

A mosaic which is that of our “Piéton”.

Sophie Schmit, Exhibition Curator