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Bruno de Monès

Bruno de Monès is a French photographer, born (1952-02-11)11 February 1952 in Orléans. He is known for his black and white portraits of artists and intellectuals such as Klaus Kinski, Charles Aznavour, Salvador Dalí, Burt Lancaster and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Bruno de Monès
Bruno de Monès, 2016
Born(1952-02-11)11 February 1952
Orléans, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Photographer, screenwriter
Websitebrunodemones.com

Life

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After having spent his teenage years in Morocco, Bruno de Monès moved to Paris in the middle of the seventies. He became the assistant of fashion photographer Jean Clemmer; then he joined in 1976 the audiovisual department of the Charles of the Ritz / Yves Saint Laurent perfumes company as photographer and assistant director. During this time he decided to make portraits of personalities from the arts. These black and white pictures in sharp contrast were the subject of an exhibition at the Espace Canon (Les Yeux du miroir, Paris, 1980) and were published in a photograph album (Visages connus, faces caches.[1])

In the years 1980–1990, he worked for newspapers and was one of the official photographer of the Magazine Littéraire.[2] He took famous photographs of numerous writers and intellectuals. He also worked in the ads and fashion[3] with essentially Japan published works.[4] In 1994, he was one of the founders of the Mois off de la photo in Paris.

In 2010 a retrospective exhibition on his work was organized in Paris (Théâtre de l'Odéon). More than 100 portraits were exhibited under the arcades of the theater and in the streets around.[5] Since the eighties until today, the works of Bruno de Monès are published in French newspapers and magazines.[6] The photographer is also frequently published in Europe, America and Asia.[7] Since 2010, he works on scriptwriting projects.

Bibliography

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  • Visages connus, Faces cachées, La Butte aux Cailles (1983)
  • The Fourfold View of a Star, Heaven (1993), published in Japan and the United States
  • Publication in third-party works:
    • Portraits pour un siècle / Cent écrivains: portraits of Michel Foucault and V. S. Naipaul (Gallimard and Roger-Viollet, 2011)
    • Aznavour en haut de l'affiche, by Charles Aznavour (Flammarion, 2011)
    • "Quelques philosophes": portraits of famous philosophers in La Règle du jeu's issue nr. 74 (dir. Bernard Henri Levy, ed. Grasset, novembre 2021)
  • Publication of personal projects:
    • Zoom no. 81, 97, 131
    • Vis à vis International
    • Photographies Magazine
    • Photo Revue

Significant works

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Noteworthy exhibitions

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  • Le Bistrot d'Isa, Paris, Septembre 1977
  • Les Yeux du miroir, Espace Canon in Paris, 1980
  • Objectif Mode with Thierry Arditti, Cynthia Hampton, Paolo Calia and Satoshi, Galerie Viviane Esders in Paris, 1988
  • Gueules de Stars (with Eddy Brière), Galerie-Librairie le 29 in Paris, 2010
  • Exposition de 100 portraits de Bruno de Monès au Théâtre de l'Odéon (et autour), rétrospective in Paris, 2010
  • Galerie Intuiti, Paris, 2014
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Notes

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  1. ^ Cf. article L'automne des portraits by Bloch and Pesenti, in December 1983 Nouvelles littéraires issue
  2. ^ Source : April 1983 Zoom issue
  3. ^ Source : Un univers, un regard, une ambiance by Karyn Fauquet in Zoom no. 131
  4. ^ Works studied in the article Étoffe de Nuits by Mathias Schmitt, in Magazine Photo no. 88 (1987)
  5. ^ Exhibition of 100 portraits by Bruno de Monès at the Théâtre de l’Odéon (and around)
  6. ^ Such as: Libération, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Paris-Match, Le Magazine Littéraire, Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur, Marie-Claire, Biba, Cosmopolitan, Télérama, Psychologies, L'Histoire, Sciences Humaines, GQ, Vanity Fair
  7. ^ Main countries: Germany, Austria, Great-Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, USA, Japan, Brasil
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