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Hervé GUIBERT

Hervé GUIBERT

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Born 1955 in Saint-Cloud in France - Died in 1991 in Clamart.
He lived and worked mainly in Paris.

http://herveguibert.net

 

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.


A delicate photographer (inspired by literature and rather non-dramatic as a person), a journalist, writer (with no less than around thirty books to his name), a photo chronicler, a screenwriter and video director (La Pudeur ou l’Impudeur, a filmed journal, 1990), Guibert was to have a taste of art in all its forms during his all too brief life. At the time of L’Image fantôme (1981), a magnificent collection of reflections and short narratives on the photo as a medium and desire as an emotion, he said that all he had done in his entire photographic output was to “bear witness to his love”. With the cooperation of his friend and gallery owner Agathe Gaillard, the European House of Photography in Paris finally devoted to him, a year ago, his first major retrospective.

Exhibition organised with the collaboration of Agathe Gaillard and Christine Guibert.

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