Gilles Peress

Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France ) is an internationally important French documentary photographer / photo reporter.

education

Peress, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1946, attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (study of political science and philosophy) from 1966 to 1968, then the University of Vincennes until 1971 . He has dedicated himself to photography since 1970 and joined the legendary photo agency Magnum Photos in 1972 (he became a member in 1974). 1984/85 he was its deputy chairman, 1986/87 and 1989–1990 chairman. He is represented commercially by the Howard Greenberg Gallery , New York . Peress was u. a. Photographer for the renowned magazine The New Yorker and Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley.

Peress received high recognition worldwide for his emotional photo reports from numerous crisis areas, such as Bosnia or the genocide in Rwanda .

In the days around November 9, 1989 in Berlin his series produced The Fall of around 68 large-format double photographs Peress completed in 2004 at a special exhibition of visitors with personal comments, thoughts and memories and then for the first time as part of the anniversary 15 years fall of the wall as collective memorial document of German history published. The House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany acquired the installation The Fall from the 2004 special exhibition (with the support of the Deutsche Bank Foundation and Dieter Rosenkranz, Berlin).

Peress lives and works in New York .

Exhibitions

• 2010

And then the wall was gone. Photographs by Gilles Peress , House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (also in Berlin and Leipzig at the same time)

• 1997

Berkeley School of Journalism, California : Large format black and white photos of the genocide in Rwanda

• 1996

Howard Greenberg Gallery , New York

• 1995

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York

Folkwang Museum, Essen

Farewell to Bosnia: Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan

• 1994

Farewell to Bosnia: Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, DC

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

PS 1, New York

Rhode Island College Art Center

New Langton Arts, San Francisco

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nimes, France

Dutch Institute for Photography, Rotterdam

La Primavera Barcelona (Fundacio La Caixa).

• 1993

Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway

• 1992

David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

• 1990

Art Institute of Chicago

Alternative Museum, New York

International Center for Photography, New York

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada

• 1989

Alternative Museum, New York

International Center for Photography, New York

International Museum of Photography / George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

University of South Florida, Tampa

Canon Image Center, Amsterdam

Fotograficentrum, Stockholm, Sweden

Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

Arbetets Museum, Norrkoping, Sweden

• 1988

Hipolyte Gallery , Helsinki, Finland

Ranta Gallery, Oulu, Finland

Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York

• 1987

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

• 1986

Musee de la Villette, Paris

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

The Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• 1985

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Musee d'Art, Friborg, France

Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie , Arles, France

Ledel Gallery, New York

• 1984

Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS 1, New York

Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minn.

Focus Gallery, San Francisco

City Gallery, New York

Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris

Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston

Magnum Gallery, Paris

• 1983

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

• 1982

Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England

Center Kodak, Paris

• 1981

Palais du Luxembourg, Paris

International Center for Photography, New York

• 1980

Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS 1, New York

Arts Council of Great Britain, London

Adakyu, Grand Gallery, Tokyo

• 1977

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Honourings and prices

• 1996 International Center of Photography Infinity Award
• 1995 Erich Solomon Prize Camera Works Grant
• 1994 International Center of Photography Infinity Award
• 1993 La Fondation de France Fellowship
• 1992 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1992–1993 Guggenheim scholarship
• 1990 Art Matters Grant
• 1989 Ernst Haas Prize, Art Director's Club Award
• 1986 Gahan Fellowship, Harvard University
• 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography
• 1983 Fondation Nationale pour la Photography Grant, Imogen Cunningham Award
• 1981 Prix de la Critique Couleur, Prix du Premier Livre / Ville de Paris / Fondation Kodak Pathe, Overseas Press Club Award, Art Director's Club Award, American Institute of Graphic Arts Award
• 1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Collections

Works by Gilles Perress can be found among others. a. in the following museums:

• Art Institute, Chicago
• Aris Council of Great Britain, London
• National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale), Paris
• First Bank of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
• Leitz Foundation (Fondation Leitz), Rueil-Malmaison, France
• Fondation Nationale pour la Photography, Paris
• International Photography Museum, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Institute of Art, Minneapolis
• Museum of Modern Art (Musee d'Art Moderne), Paris
• Museum of the Moving Image , New York City
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , Texas
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England
• University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Books

• Telex. Iran. Aperture / Contrejour, 1984, text by Gholam Hassan Saedi
• Farewell to Bosnia. Scalo Publishers, 1993, text: Gilles Peress
• The Silence. Scalo Publishers, 1994, text: Alison Des Forges
• Power In the Blood: Photographs of the North of Ireland. Jonathan Cape / Scalo, 1997, with texts by Nan Richardson and Gilles Peress

items

• Guatemala : The Pious Pagans. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980, 4, pp. 82-102. Photos for the culturally informative experience report by Karl Günter Simon . ISSN  0342-8311
• Colombia : Everyone wants to go to Eldorado Geo 12/1977, pages 8–42. Verlag Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, photos for the report by Karl Günter Simon .
• Quebec : The French of the New World. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980,5, pp. 80-100. Photos for the informative experience report by Klaus Harpprecht . ISSN  0342-8311

Video / film

"A Peruvian Equation" from the series "The Magnum Eye," TV Tokyo , Japan, 1992

Web links

• Literature by and about Gilles Peress in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Gilles Peress

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gilles Peress at Magnum Photo