Private ficcions

Temporary exhibitions

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Selected by Alain Sayag, this exhibition comprised around 100 photographs from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, with the aim of reflecting the fictitious or equivocal discourse inherent in every photographic image, whether it be artistic, documentary or for advertising.

Contents:Works by: Roy Adzak, Manuel Álvarez-Bravo, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arbus, Nobuyoshi Araki, Philippe Assalit, Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand, Hippolyte Bayard, Herbert Bayer, Jean-Claude Belegou, Hans Bellmer, Ernest James Bellocq, Robert Besanko, Bernhard & Anna Blume, Erwin Blumenfeld, Jacques-André Boiffard, Christian Boltanski, Edouard Boubat, Veronica Bromova, Gillian Brown, Claude Cahun, Harry Callahan, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Roger Catherineau, Thierry Cauwet, Richard Cerf, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Hannah Collins, Robert Doisneau, Tom Drahos, Frantisek Drtikol, Pierre Dubreuil, Pierre Espagne, Richard Evergon, Gilbert Fastenaekens, Bernard Faucon, Alain Fleischer, Toto Frima, André Gelpke, Paul-Armand Gette, Paolo Gioli, Jan Groover, Bernard Guillot, Paul Horst, Eikoh Hosoe, Louis Jammes, François Kollar, Hotaro Koyama, Erica Lennard, Nathan Lerner, Les Krims, Henry Lewis, Eli Lotar, Dora Maar, Kenneth Mac Gowan, Ann Mandelbaum, Man Ray, François Mechain, Annette Messager, Joel Meyerowitz, Duane Michals, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Jorge Molder, Patrick Nagatani, Alice Odilon, Ron O'Donnell, Karen O'Hearn, Paul Outerbridge, Pierre & Gilles, Walter Peterhans, Majus Jiri Polacek, Rene-Jacques, Bettina Rheims, Franz Roh, Georges Rousse, Jan Saudek, Gérard Schlosser, Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund, Annie Sprinkel, Joel Sternfeld, Josef Sudek, Keiichi Tahara, Otmar Thormann, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Anne Testut, Arthur Tress, Hiromi Tsuchida, Raoul Ubac, Boyd Webb, William Wegman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Vladimir Zidlicky, Peter Zupnik and Piet Zwart.

Curator:
Alain Sayag, Conservateur du Patrimoine, Cabinet de la Photographie, Musée National d'Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou.
Design/production: Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne