Photographers
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Richard Kalvar 리차드 칼버 (1944 -) U.S
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Richard Kalvar
After studying English and American literature at Cornell University from 1961 to 1965, Richard Kalvar worked in New York as an assistant to fashion photographer Jérôme Ducrot. It was the extended trip with a camera in Europe in 1966 that made him decide to become a photographer. After another two years in New York, he settled in Paris and first joined Vu Photo Agency, before helping found Viva agency in 1972 alongside Martine Franck, François Hers, Hervé Gloaguen, and Claude-Raymond Dityvon. In 1975, he became an associate member of Magnum Photos, a full member two years later, and has subsequently served as vice-president and president.
In 1980, he had a one-man show at the Agathe Gaillard gallery in Paris, and has since participated in many group shows. After much time spent documenting daily urban life, Kalvar published Portrait de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (1993). He has done extensive personal, editorial and commercial work throughout the world, notably in France, Italy, England, Japan and the United States. He is currently preparing a book of his personal pictures, and continues to work on a long-term project on the city of Rome. A retrospective of his work at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris is scheduled for 2007.
Kalvar’s photographs are marked by a strong homogeneity of aesthetic and theme. His images frequently play on a discrepancy between the banality of a real situation and a feeling of strangeness that emerges from a particular choice of timing and framing. What results is a state of tension between two levels of interpretation, attenuated by a touch of irony.
Education
1961/65 BA in English, Cornell University, USA
USA. New York City. 1969. Woman looking at herself in store window.
FRANCE. Paris. 1971. Metro station.
Warsop Vale is one of England's largest mining towns. Between 1973 and 1974 it led several strikes protesting against British Prime Minister Edward HEATH's conservative labor policies. 1974.
FRANCE. Paris. 12th arrondissement. Bois de Vincennes zoo. 1993.
FRANCE. Brittany. 1988. Chateau d'Asson, near Nantes.
BELGIUM. Town of La Louviere. Twin flowers during a carnival. 1979.
FRANCE. Paris. 14th arrondissement. Rue de l'Ouest. Tired dog. 1974.
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