Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 12 June 2025 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Richard Avedon was a famous fashion photographer, producing many Vogue covers. But between 1979 and 1984, he took a road trip through the Reagan-era American West to produce a series of portraits of the people he found there. Far from the stereotypes, Avedon photographed workers, some very young, and all sorts of interesting characters. The … Continue reading “In the American West”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 30 April 2025 > What's On
David Hockney’s new exhibition in Paris is entitled David Hockney, 25. Not a reference to the artist’s age – he will be 88 this year – but the focus he has put on the most recent 25 years of his work. Because he is still creating and still innovating, from iPad paintings to monumental landscapes … Continue reading “David Hockney: A Life in Pop Art”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 22 October 2024 > What's On
America, America is an exhibition of photos by esteemed American photojournalists and street photographers such as Lewis Hine, Gordon Parks and Helen Levitt. They are all part of the Marin Karmitz collection and are on show at the Lumière Institute till 5 January. The forty works on display span the 20th century, starting chronologically with … Continue reading “America, America Photography Exhibition in Lyon”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 16 May 2024 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée
The latest photography exhibition at the Musée Maillol in Paris is Andres Serrano: Portraits of America, and the museum is organising three teachers’ days, when you can visit for free. Serrano has tackled some tough subjects, like the Ku Klux Klan, so a pre-visit can let you prepare what you would like pupils to concentrate … Continue reading “Andres Serrano: Portraits of America Teachers’ Days”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 07 December 2023 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
We were sad to hear of the death of Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt at the age of 95. He had been taking photos for 80 years. The retrospective exhibition he curated himself at the Musée Maillol in Paris last year is currently on show in Lyon, till 17 March. It is a rich record of … Continue reading “Elliott Erwitt: A Life in Photos in Lyon”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Sunday 09 April 2023 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt has been taking photos for 80 years and the retrospective exhibition he curated himself at the Musée Maillol in Paris is a rich record of his home country of the U.S.A. and all those he has visited, the people who fascinate him and a lot of dogs! Erwitt was born in … Continue reading “Elliott Erwitt: A Life in Photos”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 07 February 2023 > What's On
The British Tate museum has a large collection of David Hockney’s work. A large selection from the collection is on view in Aix-en-Provence, a great opportunity to appreciate the variety of Britain’s most famous pop artist, from his California swimming-pool paintings to collages, portraits and objects. Hockney was born in Yorkshire in 1937, and despite … Continue reading “David Hockney: Pop Art in Aix-en-Provence”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 04 February 2022 > Pedagogy
Thank you so much to all the dedicated teachers who sent in the stories their students wrote inspired by Vivian Maier’s photographs. We received thousands of stories and they are incredibly imaginative! And we’ve chosen our favourites for publication. We asked students to write an imaginative piece inspired by one of Maier’s photos, which are … Continue reading “Your Students Have So Much Talent”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 04 February 2022 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Vivian Maier has proved incredibly popular with teachers and students alike in our creative writing competion. Now those of you in Brittany have an opportunity to get close up and personal with her work with a double exhibition at the Museums of Quimper and Pont Aven. The Quimper exhibition focuses on Maier’s street photography in … Continue reading “Vivian Maier in Brittany”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 03 November 2021 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
The interwar period was a highly creative time for the relatively young art of photography. An exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris features an extraordinary collection of photographs from New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Some 230 photographs from the Thomas Walther collection, acquired over the last 20 years, give an overview of … Continue reading “Photographing the Modern”
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