Christophe Agou
Christophe Agou (born October 14, 1969 in Montbrison ; † September 16, 2015 ) was a French photographer .
biography
Christophe Agou discovered his interest in photography as an autodidact on various trips through Europe and the United States.
He has published his documentary photographs since the 1990s. He switched between black and white and color, landscape and portrait, reportage and documentation. Agou did not commit to any particular style. In the course of time, Agou also opened up other media, such as assemblage and film, whereby he always retained his way of working.
In 1992 he settled in New York . In 1998 he began a series of photos about people in the New York subway , the results of which were published in 1998 under the title Life Below (Quantuck Lane / WW Norton & Co. 2004).
In the winter of 2002, Agou returned to his home region, the Forez , and traveled to areas far from the cities that he already knew. He got to know the people of the countryside and friendships developed from his regular visits. He began his series of photos Face au Silence (Faces of Silence) .
In 2006 he was one of the finalists of the W. Eugene Smith Award and in 2008 one of the finalists of the Prix de la Photographie of the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts . A year later he received the special jury award at the Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique and was the winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography 2010.
Christophe Agou's work has been published many times and exhibited internationally, including at MoMa (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Jeu de Paume (Paris), and the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró (Mallorca) the photo festival Les Rencontres Internationales d'Arles (France), at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC), at the Noorderlicht Festival (Netherlands) and at various photo festivals in China.
Agou died in September 2015 at the age of 45 from complications from cancer.
Photo series
- Inside Out (1995)
- Life Below (1998-2001)
- Je est un autre (1996)
- Under a cloud (2001-2004)
- Reveries
- Face au silence / (Faces of Silence) (2002-2010)
- Looking for words
- Reel fiction (since 2009)
Collections (selection)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris France
- Musée d'Art Roger Quilliot (MARQ) , Clermont-Ferrand France
- Museum of Fine Arts , Houston USA
- Neuberger Museum of Art , Purchase USA
- Smithsonian American Art Museum , Washington DC USA
- The Akron Art Museum Akron, USA
- Southeast Museum of Photography , Daytona USA
- New York Public Library , New York USA
- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center , Poughkeepsie USA
- New-York Historical Society , New York USA
- Galeries Photo-Fnac , Paris France
- The Joy of Giving Something , New York USA
Awards
- 2013: Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée - Bourse
- 2012: Center National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée - Bourse
- 2010: European Publishers Award for Photography -Lauréat
- 2009: Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique - Mention spéciale
- 2008: Prix de la Photography de l ' Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris
- 2006: W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
- 2002: Ai-AP American Photography Award
- 2002: Magazine Picture of the Year - Honorable Mention
- 2000: Project Competition - Santa Fe Prize for Photography
- 1999: Attention Talent Photo Award Fnac
literature
- Les Faits Secondaires - published 2013, ISBN 978-1-4675-7085-5 .
- Faces of Silence , Edition Braus, 2011, ISBN 3862280039 .
- In the Face of Silence , Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011, ISBN 1907893040 .
- Di Fronte al Silenzio , Peliti Associati, 2011, ISBN 888941247X .
- Face au Silence , Actes Sud, 2010, ISBN 2742795421 .
- Ante el Silencio , Lunwerg Editores, 2011, ISBN 9788497857185 .
- Aπέναντι Στη Σιωπή , Apeiron Photos, 2011.
- Life Below , The New York City Subway, Quantuck Lane Press / WW Norton & Company, 2004, ISBN 1593720084 .
Web links
- Christophe Agou Official Website
- In-Public The Home of Street Photography
- The Home of Street Photography
- Christophe Agou on Artnet
- Joy of Giving Something
- Actes Sud (PDF; 192 kB)
- ARTE TV
- Face au silence. Photographies de Christophe Agou. (French)
- Photoeye
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christophe Agou, French photographer, died at 46. ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary on deadfamous.info (English). Retrieved September 21, 2015.
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SURNAME | Agou, Christophe |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Montbrison , France |
DATE OF DEATH | 16th September 2015 |