Photographer Profile ~ Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan  (1909-2003) was a French photographer and illustrator best known for his surrealist images and photographs of Paris. He exhibited alongside such greats as Henri Cartier-Bresson , Man Ray  Robert Doisneau , Willy Ronis to name a few.

"The long career of Pierre Jahan reflects independent behavior and even epicurean, and a tireless curiosity..."

Please visit his websiite here http://pierrejahan.free.fr/

 © Pierre Jahan

"I'm always fascinated by the play of light - and chance. Like everything that is in the shadow beings and things take a sort of drift similar dream, dream or nightmare, ecstasy, fear, entr'ouvent the door of the fourth dimension in which can not be really believe I have always lived. This is all that I have, no doubt, led to photography " 

~ Peirre Jahan

 © Pierre Jahan - Redevelopment of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre Museum in 1947 after WWII.

Statue graveyard Pierre Jahan

 © Pierre Jahan - Destruction des statues pour récupérer les métaux, Paris, 1941

Nude study, ca. 1940s Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Restaurant La Coupole, Paris, 1930

Pierre Jahan - Escalier près du Canal St Martin, Paris,1937

Pierre Jahan

Pierre JahanParis by Night, Bobino “Music Hall”, rue de la Gaité 14° 1936

Pierre Jahan

After the War, a new Louvre, transformed by major renovation

work, gradually opened to the public between 

1945 and 1947.

 And thanks to the skills

 and tenacity of those responsible for 

safeguarding cultural property, the 

museum’s major masterpieces 

returned to the palace, virtually unscathed. (Louvre)

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Sculpture de Reboul, 1941

La Tour Eiffel 1926

Pierre Jahan Tour EiffelPierre Jahan c.1930

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Colette à la fenêtre de son appartement par Pierre Jahan, Paris, 1941

Pierre Jahan, Paris, la nuit, 1930.

Pierre Jahan-Reconstruction of the temple of Angkor Wat in Bois de Vincennes at the International Colonial Exhibition, 1931

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Nuages, chevelure et mappemonde, avant 1948

Poupées accrochées à un mur by Pierre Jahan, 1945

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan Photogravure Lerulé ~

1946

Main aux yeux, 1947 by Pierre Jahan

Photographers Willy Ronis and Pierre Jahan at work, Paris 1950 - by Marcel Bovis

Portrait of Pierre Jahan

Man Ray Documentary ~ Man Ray's Life and Work by Jean-Paul Fargier

Photographer Profile ~ Man Ray

Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is noted for his photograms, which he renamed "rayographs" after himself.


While appreciation for Man Ray's work beyond his fashion and portrait photography was slow in coming during his lifetime, especially in his native United States, his reputation has grown steadily in the decades since.


In 1999, ARTnews magazine named him one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century, citing his groundbreaking photography as well as "his explorations of film, painting, sculpture, collage, assemblage, and prototypes of what would eventually be called performance art and conceptual art" and saying "Man Ray offered artists in all media an example of a creative intelligence that, in its 'pursuit of pleasure and liberty,'"—Man Ray's stated guiding principles—"unlocked every door it came to and walked freely where it would." [via Wiki]

“Dora Maar”  1936

solarization

Man Ray, Photomontage with Nude and Studio Light . Est. $100,000/150,000. photo Sotheby's

Rayograph

Rayograph

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1945

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Dora Maar ( Picasso's lover)

Dora Maar ( Picasso's lover)

self portrait

Dali with Man Ray after too many espressos.



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