L'Espace entre nous

To mark the Bicentenary of the birth of photography, LE BAL is dedicating an exhibition for the very first time to a collection: that of the Wilson Centre for Photography, put together by Michael and Jane Wilson. Through this rare ensemble of 120 prints, mostly vintage, the exhibition explores the sometimes troubled, sometimes luminous, always unstable bond that unites the person who photographs with the person who is photographed.

Fugitive encounter, premeditated encounter: from the snapshot taken on the fly to collaborative staging, the exhibition questions the relationship forged at the moment of shooting between the photographer and their subject.

What does the image reveal about the respective position of these two bodies? About their complicity, their face-to-face encounter, the silent pact sealed by one's gaze upon the other's appearance?

The exhibition highlights iconic works alongside lesser-known ones, from the 1920s to the present day, along a sensitive journey that favours echoes, affinities, and contaminations between images.

" – Bertrand Schefer Featuring: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Bill Brandt, Josef Breitenbach, Horace Bristol, Esther Bubley, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, John Coplans, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, John Gutmann, Birney Imes, Graciela Iturbide, Sarah Jones, André Kertész, Chris Killip, Dorothea Lange, Sergio Larraín, Richard Learoyd, Danny Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Mayne, Susan Meiselas, Tina Modotti, Daidō Moriyama, Nicholas Nixon, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander, Tomoko Sawada, Chris Shaw, Aaron Siskind, Graham Smith, Louis Stettner, Issei Suda, Yutaka Takanashi, Shoji Ueda, Weegee, Francesca Woodman.