Le Bal (arts centre) explained
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Location: | 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris |
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Key People: | Diane Dufour |
Le Bal is an independent arts centre in Paris.[1] It focuses on documentary photography, video, cinema and new media through exhibitions, production, book publishing, talks and debates.
Le Bal has around 350 m² of exhibition space divided across two floors; a bookshop, Le Bal Books;[2] and café, Le Bal Café.[3] [4] It is located off Place de Clichy at 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris. It opened in September 2010. Its director is Diane Dufour (who was European Director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2006).[5]
Details
The building is a former 1930s dance hall called Chez Isis.
Le Bal co-publishes two or three books each year, including L’Anti-collection, a limited-edition artist’s book which it jointly publishes with the Centre national des arts plastiques, and Les Carnets du Bal.[6]
Le Bal’s educational platform, La Fabrique du Regard, has run programmes since 2008 for young people aged 8–18, especially from disadvantaged areas of Paris and its suburbs, to critically look at images.[7] [8]
Le Bal Books is run by Sébastian Hau.
Le Bal Café is operated by Alice Quillet, Anna Trattles and Anselme Blayney.[9] [10] It serves a French take on traditional British cuisine.
Since 2010 Le Bal has been involved with the annual Prix des Ecoles d’Art SFR Jeunes Talents / Le Bal (The SFR / Le Bal award for young photography with ADAGP).[11] It is a competition open to art school students and former students who graduated less than three years before entering. It carries a 5000 Euro prize intended to support the winner for two years in making or completing a documentary photography project.[12] [13]
Antoine D'Agata's Anticorps (2013), a catalogue published by Le Bal and Éditions Xavier Barral for his retrospective at Le Bal, won the Rencontres d'Arles Author’s Book Award in 2013.[14] In 2015, the book Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015) won the Photography Catalogue of the Year award in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.[15] [16]
Exhibitions
- Anonymes: L’Amérique sans nom: Photographie et Cinéma (Anonymous: Unnamed America in Photography and Film), September–December 2010. A thematic exhibition with works by Jeff Wall, Walker Evans, Chauncey Hare, Lewis Baltz, Standish Lawder, Sharon Lockhart, Doug Rickard, Anthony Hernandez, Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese, and Bruce Gilden. Curated by Diane Dufour and David Campany.[17] [18] Held in association with Mois de la Photo, Paris.
- Foto/Gráfica: a New History of the Latin-American Photobook, January - April 2012. Curated by Horacio Fernandez.[19]
- Northern Ireland (1970-1990): Gilles Peress, May–August 2012. Curated by Gilles Peress and Diane Dufour.[20]
- Chris Killip
What Happened: Great Britain 1970-1990 (originated at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany) and John Smith: The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), May–August 2012.[21]
Anticorps, January–April 2013.[22] [23] [24] Also shown at Fotomuseum Den Haag, May–September 2012;[25] Spazio Forma, Milan, June–September 2013;[26] and Atsukobarouh, Tokyo, May–July 2015.[27]
Dark Knees (1969 - 2012), September–December 2013. Curated by Diane Dufour.[28] [29] [30] [31] [32] Toured to Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, November 2014 – January 2015.
- Young Photographers at Le Bal, by Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Óscar Monzón, Ricardo Cases, Aleix Plademunt and Antonio M. Xoubanova, December 2013 – January 2014.
- Kourtney Roy
Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle (They Already Think I’m Crazy), April–May 2014. A series for Carte Blanche PMU 2013 (award for young photographers).[33] [34] [35] [36]
- Lewis Baltz: Common Objects, May–August 2014.[37]
- S’il y a Lieu je Pars Avec Vous, by Sophie Calle, Julien Magre, Stéphane Couturier, Alain Bublex and Antoine D'Agata, September–October 2014.[38]
- Dirk Braeckman, November 2014 – January 2015.[39]
- Léa Habourdin et Thibault Brunet: Les Immobiles. January 2015. A series for Carte Blanche PMU 2014 (award for young photographers).[40] [41]
- Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, January–April 2014.[42]
- Mark Lewis
Above and Below, February–May 2015.[43]
- Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence, June–August 2015.[44] [45] Then toured to The Photographers' Gallery, London.[46]
- Samuel Gratacap: Empire / Le Bal Award for Young Artists with ADAGP, September–October 2015. Curated by Pascal Beausse.[47]
- A Handful of Dust - From the Cosmic to the Domestic, by David Campany, October 2015 – January 2016.[48] [49]
- Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960-1975, September–December 2016. Curated by Diane Dufour, Matthew Witkovsky and Duncan Forbes.[50]
Publications
- Anonymes: L’Amérique sans nom: Photographie et Cinéma (Anonymous: Unnamed America in Photography and Film). Paris: Le Bal; Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. . Edited by David Campany and Diane Dufour. Text by Campany. Photographs by Jeff Wall, Walker Evans, Chauncey Hare, Lewis Baltz, Standish Lawder, Sharon Lockhart, Doug Rickard, Anthony Hernandez, Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese, and Bruce Gilden. French and English.
- Les Carnets du Bal #1: L'Image-Document, Entre Réalité et Fiction. Paris: Le Bal; Marseille: Images en Manoeuvre, 2010. Texts by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Alain Bergala, Victor Burgin, David Campany, Clément Chéroux, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Georges Didi-Huberman, Johan Grimonprez, Khalil Joreige, Gilles Mouëllic, Muriel Pic, Jean-Pierre Rehm and Susan Meiselas.
- Les Carnets du Bal #2: L'Image Déjà là, Usages de l'Objet Trouvé Photographique et Cinématographique. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvres, 2011. . Text in French.
- Les Carnets du Bal #3: les Images Manquantes. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvres, 2012. . Text in French.
- The Makes. By Eric Baudelaire. Juxtaposes never-filmed scenarios written by Michelangelo Antonioni with anonymous photographs from post-war Japanese cinema.
- Les Carnets du Bal #4: Que Peut une Image?. By Dork Zabunyan, Diane Dufour and Christine Vidal. Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques; Paris: Le Bal; Marseille: Textuel, 2014. . Text in French.
- Les Carnets du Bal #5: La Persistance des Images. Diane Dufour and Christine Vidal. Paris: Le Bal; Paris: Textuel; Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques, 2014. Text in French.
- Anticorps. By Antoine D'Agata. Madrid: Xavier Barral; Paris: Le Bal, 2013. . Text in French.
- Dark Knees. By Mark Cohen. Paris: Editions Xavier Barral; Paris: Le Bal, 2013. .
- Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle (They Already Think I’m Crazy). By Kourtney Roy. PMU; Paris: Le Bal; Trézélan: Filigranes, 2013. . For Carte Blanche PMU 2013 (award for young photographers). English and French.
- Empire. By Samuel Gratacap. Paris: Le Bal; Trézélan: Filigranes, 2015. . English and French.
- Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence. Editions Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015. . Diane Dufour with Luce Lebart, Christian Delage and Eyal Weizman. With contributions by Jennifer L. Mnookin, Anthony Petiteau, Tomasz Kizny, Thomas Keenan, and Eric Stover. English version.
- Les Immobiles: Léa Habourdin & Thibault Brunet: Carte Blanche PMU 2014. PMU; Paris: Le Bal; Trézélan: Filigranes, 2015. . French-language version.
- A Handful of Dust. By David Campany. Accompanied by an exhibition at Le Bal.
- London: Mack; Paris: Le Bal, 2015. . English-language version.
- Dust: Histoires de poussière: D'après Man Ray et Marcel Duchamp. London: Mack; Paris: Le Bal, 2015. . French-language version.
Notes
- News: Le Bal. A new venue for the document image to open in Paris. Art Daily.
- Web site: Paris Photo / Books. 19 November 2011.
- News: Trail of the unexpected: Paris' coffee culture. Independent.co.uk. 22 October 2011.
- Web site: Now Serving Spring at le Bal Café. 4 April 2012.
- Web site: Dufour, Diane. 28 April 2014.
- Web site: Les Carnets Du Bal . 25 October 2015 . Le Bal . https://web.archive.org/web/20150320110758/http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mh/les-editions/les-editions-du-bal/les-carnets-du-bal/ . 20 March 2015 . dead .
- Interview between Diane Dufour and Mark Feustel. FOAM Magazine. Issue #25, Winter 2010. . http://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/25_traces http://www.marcfeustel.com/foam-25/
- Web site: In a Few Words... . 25 October 2015 . Le Bal . 2 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150702230237/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/category/mh/la-fabrique-du-regard/en-2-mots-la-fabrique-du-regard-menu-haut/ . dead .
- Web site: - Eurostar . www.eurostar.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160317170213/http://www.eurostar.com/us-en/destination/country/france/place/91418 . 2016-03-17.
- Web site: Who is Chef Alice Quillet Anselme Blayney? [Everything You Need to Know] . 22 August 2022 .
- ADAGP is Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques; SFR is Société française du radiotéléphone
- Web site: Young Photographers at Le Bal . 26 October 2015 . Le Bal . 7 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150407002215/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/young-photographers-at-le-bal/ . dead .
- Web site: Samuel Gratacap: Empire / Le Bal Award for Young Artists with ADAGP . 26 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- News: Lost and found: Discovery award winners at Recontres d'Arles 2013. 8 July 2013 . 25 October 2015 . Sean . O'Hagan . Sean O'Hagan (journalist) . .
- Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards. 13 November 2015 . 13 November 2015 . .
- News: Winners Announced for 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Rachel . Lowry . 13 November 2015 . 13 November 2015 . .
- Web site: Anonymes: L'Amérique sans nom : photographie et cinéma . 13 March 2015 . Le Bal . https://web.archive.org/web/20150320062418/http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mg/agenda/bonjour-tout-le-monde/ . 20 March 2015 . dead .
- 2010 . Diane . Smyth . The View from the Streets . . 157 . 7783 . 58–61 . Incisive Financial Publishing Limited.
- Web site: Foto/Gráfica: a New History of the Latin-American Photobook. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: 2012 Program of Le Bal. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Chris Killip What Happened / Great Britain 1970-1990. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Antoine D'Agata Anticorps. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Antoine d'Agata, 'Anticorps' . 25 February 2013 .
- Web site: S'IL Y A LIEU JE PARS AVEC VOUS - Paris Photo Agenda . www.parisphoto.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100915/http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/sil-y-a-lieu-je-pars-avec-vous . 2016-03-04.
- Web site: Antoine d'Agata . Fotomuseumdenhaag.nl . 2012-09-02 . 2023-01-24.
- Web site: Anticorpi di Antoine d'Agata – fino a Domenica 1 settembre 2013 . 2015-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044631/http://www.formafoto.it/2013/06/anticorpi-antoine-dagata/ . 2018-09-01 . dead .
- Web site: アントワーヌ・ダガタ 「抗体」 - Schedule - スケジュール - アツコバルー ATSUKOBAROUH arts drinks talk . 2015-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044501/http://l-amusee.com/atsukobarouh/schedule/2014/0523.php . 2018-09-01 . dead .
- Web site: Mark Cohen: Dark Knees (1969 - 2012). 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: A Conversation About Mark Cohen's Dark Knees. 7 May 2014.
- Web site: Dark Knees - Photographs by Mark Cohen.
- Web site: Mark Cohen: The photographer who literally shoots from the hip. TheGuardian.com. 22 October 2013.
- News: Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair.
- PMU, Pari mutuel urbain, is the French state-controlled betting system.
- Web site: Kourtney Roy: Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Kourtney Roy: The woman who turned empty racetracks into an artform. TheGuardian.com. 9 May 2014.
- Web site: Le BAL: Kourtney Roy, Winner. 7 May 2014.
- Web site: Lewis Baltz: Common Objects. 26 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: S'il y a Lieu je Pars Avec Vous: Sophie Calle - Julien Magre - Stéphane Couturier - Alain Bublex - Antoine d'Agata. 26 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: LE BAL - Independent venue focusing on the image-as-document in all its forms – photography, video, film and the new media.
- Web site: Léa Habourdin et Thibault Brunet: Les Immobiles / Carte Blanche PMU 2014. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- http://odlp.co/2015/01/14/interview/26983/carte-blanche-pmu-2014-an-interview-with-lea-habourdin-and-thibault-brunet L’Oeil de la Photographie
- Web site: Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Mark Lewis: Above and Below. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence. 25 October 2015 . Le Bal .
- Web site: Images of Conviction at le Bal, Paris – Aperture NY. 29 June 2015.
- Web site: Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence Burden of Proof The Photographers' Gallery . thephotographersgallery.org.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150914171045/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/burden-of-proof-the-construction-of-visual-evidence-4 . 2015-09-14. dmy-all.
- Web site: Paris : Empire by Samuel. 14 September 2015.
- Web site: A Handful of Dust - From the Cosmic to the Domestic . 23 October 2015 . Le Bal . 18 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151018070626/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/a-handful-of-dust/ . dead .
- Web site: A Handful of Dust From the Cosmic to the Domestic - Paris Photo Agenda . www.parisphoto.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150926054049/http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/handful-of-dust-from-the-cosmic-to-the-domestic . 2015-09-26. dmy-all.
- Web site: Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960-1975. 8 November 2016 . Le Bal . 18 July 2016 .
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