Nicolas Faure

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Nicolas Faure (born December 1, 1949 in Geneva ) is a Swiss photographer and university lecturer .

life and work

Nicolas Faure trained as a goldsmith from 1968 to 1971 and traveled through the Middle and Far East over the next three years. As an autodidact, he trained as a photographer and worked as a goldsmith and photographer in New York from 1975 to 1980. From 1981 to 1983 he was a photography teacher at the University of Geneva and from 2001 professor at the Lausanne School of Art, the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL). In 1980, 1986 and 1988 he was awarded the Swiss Design Prize and in 1992 the Kodak Photography Prize . His pictures have been published in illustrated books and numerous magazines, including Geo , and are, for example, in the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the New York Museum of Modern Art .

He became known for his extensive photo series on the Swiss motorways. In his books and exhibitions Autoland. Pictures from Switzerland and Landscapes A , he deals with the transformation of the landscape through technology. The series Landscapes A (the A stands for the motorway traffic sign), published in 2005, is a documentation of the shaping of the motorway edges, of a space that was designed as a transition to the landscape. These integration efforts resulted in peculiar artificial landscapes that the photographer carefully expressed. The motorist cannot perceive them because of their driving speed; they are inaccessible to pedestrians. Faure discovers these artificial spaces as places of peculiar beauty.

Nicolas Faure lives in Meyrin . With the pictures of his community, in which more than 100 nationalities live, he created a manifesto of multicultural Switzerland in his work Multikultur im Vorort - Meyrin . He also portrayed 80 families in their living environment: in their apartments with the memorabilia and furniture.

Quote

“ His pictures show the present, the real Switzerland, without ignoring what others put out of the picture: waste incineration plants, quarry ponds, tunnel portals, neon-lit gas stations. His photographs are meticulously precise, with a calm aesthetic of the matter of course. "

- Christian Eggenberger, Lars Müller

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications

  • Good bye Manhattan . Panorama-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-907506-82-0
  • Switzerland on the rocks . Introduction by Thomas Hürlimann. Museum of Design, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-905080-17-6
  • Claudia Schnieper / Nicolas Faure: Switzerland before Christ. Riddle of prehistoric times . Mondo-Verlag, Vevey 1993, ISBN 2-88168-370-3
  • Multicultural in the suburb - Meyrin. Commune de Meyrin . Text: André Klopmann, Scalo, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-931141-07-1
  • From one Switzerland to another . Exhibition catalog. Texts: Adolf Muschg u. a., Scalo, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-931141-83-7
  • Autoland. Pictures from Switzerland . Museum of Design, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-908247-11-X
  • A Landscape . Steidl, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-86521-212-3

literature

  • Monika Burri : Geraniums in front of the guard rails. Is there a threat of the autobahn becoming more Swiss? In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 8, 1999
  • Christian Eggenberger, Lars Müller: Photosuisse. 28 portraits by Swiss photographers . Lars Müller Publishers , Baden 2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-036-7
  • Ulf Erdmann Ziegler : Review of Autoland. Pictures from Switzerland . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of March 25, 2000
  • Joël Gottar, Loïc Roecker: Nicolas Faure, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy. - Portraits / chantiers . Geneva 2004, ISBN 2-940159-27-0
  • Xavier Ruiz : Nicolas Faure . Portrait film. SF . First broadcast on September 25, 2004 (also: 3sat on January 10, 2010)
  • Barbara Stark, Christoph Bauer, Markus Landert: view and image. Photography on Lake Constance from 1920 until today . Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-89904-022-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet site: MoMa, The Collection
  2. ^ Christian Eggenberger, Lars Müller: Photosuisse. 28 portraits by Swiss photographers . Lars Müller Publishers, Baden 2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-036-7 , page 42
personal data
SURNAME Faure, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva