Gilles Peress

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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

Video / film

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gilles Peress at Magnum Photo