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Jean Marquis, Surveyor of Everyday Life. Photographs 1951-1983
Culture · Tuesday, November 3 · 11:00 · Paris
Galerie Roger-Viollet, 6, rue de Seine
Free
The Roger-Viollet Gallery is exploring 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 drama facilitator, to look toward photography. He has an eye. Three years later, he joins Magnum Photos alongside Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Chim. From streets to fields, from factories to pastures, from Liverpool to Budapest, from Algerian colonists to camel drivers at the Touggourt market and to the slum of Clos Salembier…
