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Conception par Alinoa.
© Hervé Guibert
Born 1955 in Saint-Cloud in France - Died in 1991 in Clamart. |
Dreaming, as an adolescent, of being a film director, Hervé Guibert first became interested in photography with a small Rollei he received as a gift from his father and which he kept throughout his life. A writer of precocious talent, he was only 22 when he published his first rather blistering novels (La Mort propagande, then Suzanne et Louise – akin to a photo novel) before joining the editing staff on Le Monde, where he was photography critic on the Arts page for eight years (the period when the photograph was to develop into a real art form). Hervé Guibert, who was homosexual and a victim of AIDS, constantly placed his illness at the heart of his writing and set his emotional life at the very core of his photographs. He had immense success in 1990, revealing his illness in A l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie (followed up a year later with Le Protocole compassionnel), before it was in turn to lead him to attempt suicide at the end of 1991.
Exhibition organised with the collaboration of Agathe Gaillard and Christine Guibert. |
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