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Jean Marquis, Surveyor of Everyday Life. Photographs 1951-1983
Show · Wednesday, November 4 · 11:00 · Paris
Galerie Roger-Viollet, 6, rue de Seine
Free
La galerie Roger-Viollet explores for the first time the work of Jean Marquis. A selection of 110 contemporary prints offered in a limited edition of 30 copies. In 1951, Robert Capa advises Jean Marquis (1926-2019), actor and dramatic arts broadcaster, to turn to photography. He has the eye. Three years later, he joins Magnum Photos alongside Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Chim. From streets to fields, from factories to hayfields, from Liverpool to Budapest, from Algerian colonists to the camel drivers of Touggourt market and the slum of Clos Salembier…
