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Hervé Gloaguen
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Ella Fitzgerald, 1963 - Hervé Gloaguen Ella Fitzgerald, 1963 Hervé Gloaguen See slideshow
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Louis Armstrong, 1965 - Hervé Gloaguen Louis Armstrong, 1965 Hervé Gloaguen See slideshow
Ray Charles, Paris 1961 - Hervé Gloaguen Ray Charles, Paris 1961 Hervé Gloaguen See slideshow
Biography

Born in 1937 in Rennes, Hervé Gloaguen entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the same town at the age of 20. He was only there for one year and in 1958 started at the Ecole de photographie on rue de Vaugirard in Paris. After a flying visit to this institution, he decided to become a self-taught photographer until 1960. He mainly photographed the world of Parisian theatre. It was at this time that the photographer discovered jazz in New Orleans. From September 1960 to September 1962, Hervé Gloaguen carried out his military service in the Marines. In 1963 the film director Chris Marker was impressed by his photographs and recommended him to the magazine Réalités. The same year, Gloagen became assistant photographer to Gilles Ehrmann, author of the work ‘Les inspirés et leurs demeures.’ It was the latter who introduced Hervé Gloaguen to professional techniques but also to aesthetic and philosophical theories. He went on to receive orders for industrial photographs but also more journalistic subjects. He then had the opportunity to carry out several subjects in the United States. He discovered contemporary American art there. Accompanied by the contemporary art specialist Jean Clay, Hervé Gloagen photographed Andy Warhol in 1966. He also produced portraits of the choreographer Merce Cunningham and the composer John Cage. At the end of 1967, the photographer stayed in East Village, the heart of the new New York scene made up of artists from all walks of life performing in theatres ‘Off-Off-Broadway.’ On the heels of this transatlantic experience and in a post-68 context, Gloagen questioned his role as photographer in society. At the start of 72, Hervé became one of the founders of the press agency Viva. Viva photographers advocate a personal view of society through their work. These professional journalists want ‘to make personal photographs on themes which involve everyone.’ Their reportages are committed and cover symbolic subjects. At the same time, Hervé Gloagen published a book with Anne Tronchet dedicated to contemporary art. The photographs from this book are exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris. Throughout his career, the photographer carried out many reports for prestigious international publications whilst looking for equilibrium between editorial realism and subjectivity of the photos. In 1982, Gloagen confided his archives to Rapho and began an active collaboration with this agency. He still continues to produce committed reports where his personal visions about the state of the world are apparent.

COUNTRY : France

THEMES : Music

COLLECTIONS : Contemporary
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