{"id":494,"date":"2014-07-12T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T10:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/padraigrooney.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2014-07-12T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T10:28:21","slug":"les-rencontres-darles-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padraigrooney.com\/blog\/les-rencontres-darles-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Les rencontres d’Arles (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year Arles buzzes with photo people of all stripes. Its festival<\/a> runs throughout the summer but the week of 7-13 July sees a concentration of openings, parties and people in town. During a quick walk through the streets last night I was able to catch some striking work by the Montpellier-based artist who goes by the letters TTY, otherwise known as Thierry Art. He works in what looks like porcelain but may only be highly polished epoxy-resin, and photography. He won the Taipei International Digital Content Award in 2012. My personal view is that he needs to get a name with resonance. The work speaks for itself. It’s on show at Le magazin de jouets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Little Models: Tout ce qui na\u00eet tend \u00e0 mourir, TTY photography.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Eternal Heads 3\/4, TTY photography.<\/p><\/div>\n

Then round the corner at Voices Off<\/a>, 3 rue du S\u00e9minaire, William Ropp was exhibiting a range of his eery portraits. His book of haunting images Memoires r\u0207v\u00e9es d’Afriques<\/em> has just been launched. Ropp himself was there on the shop floor and there was a steady stream of visitors. Ropp seems to specialise in capturing enlarged or slightly astigmatic eyes, which reminded me of the early portraits of Lucian Freud. Anyway, I liked them. He goes for deep shadows and long exposures. Ropp is French and based in Nancy<\/p>\n

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from his Mali series, William Ropp<\/p><\/div>\n

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William Ropp<\/p><\/div>\n

Then it was off down to Actes Sud<\/a> bookshop to check out the times for today’s showing of the John Maloof and Charlie Siskel documentary on the new York street photographer, Vivian Maier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Self-portrait, 1954, Vivian Maier<\/p><\/div>\n

Maier was a great discovery for me last year and I was happy to snag the last copy of the PowerHouse Books monograph on her, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer<\/em>. The kind bookshop assistant retrieved it from the window. More on Arles, its new Van Gogh museum\/archive and on Vivian Maier tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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