Guy Le Querrec Guy Le Querrec (born 1941 in Paris , France ) is a French photographer and filmmaker , noted for his documentary images of jazz musicians. He is a member of Magnum Photos .
Career
Le Querrec took his first photographs as a teenager using a basic Fex/Indo Ultra-Fex , buying second hand soon after another and more sophisticated bakelite 6 x 9 cm Photax viewfinder camera, in 1955. He shot his first pictures of jazz musicians in London in the late 1950s. After having served in the army, he became a professional in 1967, and then worked as a picture editor and photographer for Jeune Afrique francophone Africa , including Chad , Cameroon , Niger , and Central African Republic .[ 1] Agence Vu , founded by Pierre de Fenoyl and then co-founded Viva (photo agency) , with Martine Franck , Hervé Gloaguen, and others. In 1976, he joined Magnum Photos .
In the late 1970s he began directing films, working with Robert Bober . In 1983 at the Rencontres d'Arles he experimented with projecting images while a jazz quartet played.
Besides having photographed numerous jazz festivals and African subjects, Le Querrec has traveled to China and documented American Indians . He has documented Villejuif , a suburb of Paris , as well as the Carnation Revolution in Portugal . He has also taught many photography workshops in France.[ 2]
Filmography
Un repas de famille, 1979, Institut national de l'audiovisuel , Paris, FranceLes nouveaux créateurs (The New Creators) , 1978, TF1 , FranceLa batterie... vous rappelez pas? 1979, Institut national de l'audiovisuelL'oeil au papier de perre, 1979, FR3 , FranceChasse à l’homme, 1981, TF1, FranceLe voyage de Rose, 1982L’ennemi intérieur, 1983, FR3, FranceUne minute pour une image (One Minute for One Image) , 1983Jazz Impressions, 1984La Republique nous appelle, 1984, FR3, France
Bibliography
Quelque Part , Paris, France: Contrejour, 1977, ISBN 978-2-85949-009-6 Portugal 1974-1975 : Regards sur une tentative de pouvoir populaire, France: Hier & Demain, 1979Jazz sous les platanes , Vitrolles, France: Editions Java, 1984Tête à tête : Daniel Druet, un Sculpteur et ses modèles , France: Carrère, 1988Musicales , Amiens, France: Trois Cailloux, 1991Jazz comme une image, Banlieues Bleues, Paris, France: Scandéditions, 1993Carnet de Routes , Paris, France: Label bleu, 1995Jazz de J à ZZ , Paris, France: Marval, 1996, ASIN B004DKQZS4François Mitterrand : des temps de pose à l'Elysée , Paris, France: Marval, 1997, ISBN 978-2-86234-229-0 Suites Africaines, Carnet de Routes , France: Label bleu, 1999Jazz Light and Day , Italy: Federico Motta Editore, 2001On the Trail to Wounded Knee: The Big Foot Memorial Ride , USA: Lyons Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58574-533-3 African Flashback , France: Label bleu, 2005
Recent exhibitions
Big Foot Trail , 2002, Gallery Hermès , New York City , USAJAZZ de J à ZZ , 2002, Centro de la Imagen, Braga , Portugal Rencontres internationales de d’jazz, 2003, Nevers , France
JAZZ de J à ZZ , 2003, L’Espal, Le Mans , FranceL'oeil de l'elephant , 2006, Rencontres d'Arles , France
Awards
Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris, 1998
References
External links
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