Daniel Gendre

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Daniel Gendre (born November 21, 1946 in Geneva ) is a Swiss photographer who specializes in advertising and portrait photography . He lives and works in Windisch AG .

Daniel Gendre, 2016

Life

Daniel Gendre was born in Geneva on November 21, 1946. He completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman and traveled around the world from 1967 to 1974, spending a long time in Australia. In 1970, in the 100th year of Lenin's birth , he traveled through the Soviet Union . Daniel Gendre has lived and worked in Zurich and the surrounding area since 1975 .

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Trips abroad

In 1970 Gendre undertook a four-month train journey through the Soviet Union, which took him from Nakhodka in the east via Moscow to Leningrad in the west of the country (with a detour to Lenin's birthplace, Ulyanovsk ). The recordings made in the 100th year of Lenin's birth do not show cheering crowds and marches, but everyday Soviet life, for example people on their way to work and street scenes. The cultural diversity of the former Soviet Union is reflected in the photo series. Many pictures were taken during the trip, but they were only shown to a larger audience at exhibitions in Paris and Zurich 35 years after the exposure. The success of these exhibitions led to the publication of the photo book USSR in 2008. Preface to the photo book steered u. a. Regula Heusser-Markun and Michail Schischkin .

In the spring of 2010, Gendre cycled through Tokyo for five weeks , looking for “poetic urbanism”. The resulting works were shown in the Japanese Embassy in Bern.

Gendre was trained as a photographer in London from 1971–1974, where he a. a. Was assistant to Phil Jude and Brian Duffy .

Studio work

Gendre founded a studio for advertising and product photography in 1975 . He devoted himself to these areas of photography into the new millennium and won various awards. From the year 2000 he devoted himself increasingly to portrait photography. Today Gendre works mainly in black and white .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2003: Galerie Sarasin, Geneva: 50 portraits en noir / blanc
  • 2004: Werkgalerie, Maur ZH: Photographies en noir / blanc
  • 2007: Galerie Last, Zurich: Petites histoires russes
  • 2008: National Museum of Political History of Russia, Villa Matilda Felixowna Kschessinskaja , St. Petersburg
  • 2009: Galerie im Höchhuus, Küsnacht: Lipsticks et polachromes
  • 2011: Musée de l'Elysée , Lausanne: Présentation publique
  • 2011: Japanese Embassy, ​​Bern: Tokyo, poésie urbaine
  • 2012: Le Château, Montcherand: Déchets de Vinyle
  • 2015: Japanese Embassy, ​​Bern: Silent Tokyo (Still lives - Natures mortes)

Publications

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everyday life behind the scenes . WOZ website. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Japan - the point of contact between two worlds . Website of the Japanese Embassy in Switzerland. Retrieved February 1, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Gendre, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva