Bruno Barbey

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Bruno Barbey (born February 13, 1941 in Morocco , † November 9, 2020 in Orbais-l'Abbaye ) was a French photographer . He was a member of the Magnum photo agency . Within 40 years he has traveled to all continents and created photo reports mainly of warlike events.

Life

Bruno Barbey spent his childhood in Morocco. At the age of 16 he got his pilot's license and learned to parachute. Then he went to Paris to the Lycee Henry IV . From 1959 to 1960 he studied graphics and photography at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Vevey , Switzerland .

During the sixties, he was the publisher Editions recontre in Lausanne tasked photo series to create in Europe and Africa. He traveled to Naples , the Camargue , Portugal , Scotland , Kenya and Kuwait . Each of his travels resulted in a book that he illustrated. In 1968 he was accepted as a full member of the Magnum photo agency, the year in which he documented in detail the workers' and student unrest in Paris with his camera. In Tokyo it was also about student unrest. Together with the writer Jean Genet he reported from Palestine for the magazine Zoom and he portrayed Nasser in Egypt.

From 1979 to 1981 he traveled through Poland and brought back enough material for a book. His photo reports have been printed worldwide, including Life , Paris Match , the Stern , Geo and National Geographic . He ventured into war or civil war zones: the battles of Biafra with Nigeria , Vietnam , the Middle East , Bangladesh , Cambodia , Northern Ireland and Iraq . He protested against being classified as a war photographer .

On April 13, 2016, Barbey was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts . Today Barbey's pictures are kept in many museums in different countries. The largest part of his collection is with the collection of the Magnum photo agency in the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas . His wife, the filmmaker Caroline Thiénot Barbey, provides insights into his work in her films.

Bruno Barbey died on November 9, 2020 at the age of 79 in Orbais-l'Abbaye .

Exhibitions

Prices (selection)

Publications

  • Kathmandu : Newar do not mourn. In: Geo-Magazin . Hamburg 1979, pp. 112-148
  • Burma : the golden cage . In: Geo magazine. Hamburg 1978, pp. 64-88
  • Oman . Publisher: The Empty Quarter Gallery , 2010. ISBN 978-9948-15-943-8
  • Bruno Barbey's Istanbul . Yapi Kredi Publications, Turkey 2009
  • With Lemia Le Clézio (text): Morocco . Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2004
  • With Tahar Ben Jelloun (text): Les Italiens . Editions de la Martinière, France 2002
  • With Jean-Luc Moreau (text): Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre . Verlag Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-8067-2888-7
  • May 68 . Editions de la Différence, France 1998
  • Fès , immobile, immortelle . Editions Imprimerie Nationale, France 1996
  • Portugal , German edition. Verlag Hoffmann & Campe, Munich 1988
  • Le Gabon . Editions du Chêne, France 1984.
  • Publisher: Karl Dedecius Poland . Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-08749-3
  • Bombay . Time & Life Books, Netherlands 1979
  • Nigeria . Editions Jeune Afrique, France 1978
  • Iran . Editions Jeune Afrique, France 1976
  • Ceylan . Editions André Barret, Switzerland 1974
  • Ecosse . Editions Rencontre, Switzerland 1968
  • Koweït . Editions Rencontre, 1967
  • Kenya . Editions Rencontre, 1966
  • Portugal . Editions Rencontre, 1966
  • Camargue . Editions Rencontre, 1964
  • Naples . Editions Rencontre, 1964

Writings with contributions by Bruno Barbey

Movies

  • 2008: May 68 vu par Bruno Barbey , Realization: Caroline Thienot
  • 2005: Grand Angle , 2M, Morocco.
  • 2003: Panoramiques Maroc , realization: Caroline Thiénot ( beta , 10 min).
  • 1996: Maroc sans Frontière , realization: Mostafa Bouazzaoui for Moroccan television
  • 1988: Assignment in Morocco , BBC , Realization: Clem Vallance (coproduction with National Geographic ).
  • 1979: 3 Jours, 3 Photographes , realization: F. Moscovitz (portraits of Bruno Barbey, Jean Loup Sieff and Robert Doisneau ).
  • 1968: May 68 ( 16mm , B&W).
  • 1962: La Boulangère de Monceau (German: The baker of Monceau ). Directed by Eric Rohmer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aurore Bachelet: Sebastião Salgado, Bruno Barbey and Jean Gaumy élus à l'Académie des beaux-arts. (pdf; 631 kB) In: accessia.fr. April 13, 2016, p. 2 , archived from the original on July 1, 2016 ; accessed on November 9, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Clémentine Mercier: Mort de Bruno Barbey, figure de l'âge d'or du photojournalisme. In: liberation.fr . November 9, 2020, accessed November 9, 2020 (French). Olivia Arthur : Bruno Barbey: 1941 - 2020. In: magnumphotos.com. November 9, 2020, accessed November 9, 2020 . Pierre Monastier: RIP. Bruno Barbey, grand héraut du photojournalisme, est mort. In: profession-audiovisuel.com. November 10, 2020, accessed on November 10, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Barbey, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer, member of the Magnum photo agency
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Morocco
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2020
Place of death Roubaix