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Playing with Shadow and Light
Playing with Shadow and Light
November 5, 2025
Hervé Gloaguen: Andy Warhol, 1966
The exhibition is a journey through Hervé Gloaguen’s oeuvre across the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Gloaguen (b. 1937 in Bretagne) is one of the few French photographers who branched out into colour at a time when most of his colleagues followed the humanist tradition of shooting in black and white. From the 1980s onwards, he developed a systematic visual approach – working without a flash, and bringing together the two poles of modern reportage photography: realism, and subjectivity.
Even before this, in 1974, he started a colour reportage about Rome, which he pursued over the course of five one-month trips until 1995. This resulted in the photo essay Rome, la nuit (Rome by Night), recently published in the form of a monograph by Éditions Contrejour.
During the 1960s, Gloaguen travelled throughout Europe and the U.S., photographing many of the era’s iconic cultural figures – from Andy Warhol, Merce Cunningham and Martial Raysse to Miles Davis and Luis Armstrong. In the 1970s, he was involved in the founding of the progressive VIVA agency along with fellow photographers such as Richard Kalvar, Martine Franck and Guy Le Querrec, before joining the Rapho agency in 1982. Gloaguen’s work is featured in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Réattu Museum, among others.
Katrin UllmannGloaguen (b. 1937 in Bretagne) is one of the few French photographers who branched out into colour at a time when most of his colleagues followed the humanist tradition of shooting in black and white. From the 1980s onwards, he developed a systematic visual approach – working without a flash, and bringing together the two poles of modern reportage photography: realism, and subjectivity.
Even before this, in 1974, he started a colour reportage about Rome, which he pursued over the course of five one-month trips until 1995. This resulted in the photo essay Rome, la nuit (Rome by Night), recently published in the form of a monograph by Éditions Contrejour.
During the 1960s, Gloaguen travelled throughout Europe and the U.S., photographing many of the era’s iconic cultural figures – from Andy Warhol, Merce Cunningham and Martial Raysse to Miles Davis and Luis Armstrong. In the 1970s, he was involved in the founding of the progressive VIVA agency along with fellow photographers such as Richard Kalvar, Martine Franck and Guy Le Querrec, before joining the Rapho agency in 1982. Gloaguen’s work is featured in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Réattu Museum, among others.
Hervé Gloaguen: Andy Warhol, 1966
Hervé Gloaguen: Ho Chi Minh City, 1975
Hervé Gloaguen: Louis Armstrong, Paris 1965
Hervé Gloaguen: New York, 1967