Guy Le Querrec
Guy Le Querrec (born 1941 in Paris, France) is a French photographer and filmmaker, noted for his documentary images of jazz musicians. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
Career[]
Le Querrec took his first photographs as a teenager using a basic , buying second hand soon after another and more sophisticated bakelite 6 x 9 cm camera, in 1955. He shot his first pictures of jazz musicians in London in the late 1950s. After having served in the army, he became a professional in 1967, and then worked as a picture editor and photographer for Jeune Afrique magazine, working in francophone Africa, including Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Central African Republic.[1] In 1971 he gave his archives to Agence Vu, founded by and then co-founded . In 1976, he left Viva and joined Magnum Photos.
In the late 1970s he began directing films, working with Robert Bober. In 1983 at the Rencontres d'Arles he experimented with projecting images while a jazz quartet played.
Besides having photographed numerous jazz festivals and African subjects, Le Querrec has traveled to China and documented American Indians. He has documented Villejuif, a suburb of Paris, as well as the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. He has also taught many photography workshops in France.[2]
Filmography[]
- Un repas de famille, 1979, Institut national de l'audiovisuel, Paris, France
- Les nouveaux créateurs (The New Creators), 1978, TF1, France
- La batterie... vous rappelez pas? 1979, Institut national de l'audiovisuel
- L'oeil au papier de perre, 1979, FR3, France
- Chasse à l’homme, 1981, TF1, France
- Le voyage de Rose, 1982
- L’ennemi intérieur, 1983, FR3, France
- Une minute pour une image (One Minute for One Image), 1983
- Jazz Impressions, 1984
- La Republique nous appelle, 1984, FR3, France
Bibliography[]
- Quelque Part, Paris, France: Contrejour, 1977, ISBN 978-2-85949-009-6
- Portugal 1974-1975 : Regards sur une tentative de pouvoir populaire, France: Hier & Demain, 1979
- Jazz sous les platanes, Vitrolles, France: Editions Java, 1984
- Tête à tête : Daniel Druet, un Sculpteur et ses modèles, France: Carrère, 1988
- Musicales, Amiens, France: Trois Cailloux, 1991
- Jazz comme une image, Banlieues Bleues, Paris, France: Scandéditions, 1993
- Carnet de Routes, Paris, France: Label bleu, 1995
- Jazz de J à ZZ, Paris, France: Marval, 1996, ASIN B004DKQZS4
- François Mitterrand : des temps de pose à l'Elysée, Paris, France: Marval, 1997, ISBN 978-2-86234-229-0
- Suites Africaines, Carnet de Routes, France: Label bleu, 1999
- Jazz Light and Day, Italy: Federico Motta Editore, 2001
- On the Trail to Wounded Knee: The Big Foot Memorial Ride, USA: Lyons Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58574-533-3
- African Flashback, France: Label bleu, 2005
Recent Exhibitions[]
- Big Foot Trail, 2002, , New York City, USA
- JAZZ de J à ZZ, 2002, Centro de la Imagen, Braga, Portugal
- Rencontres internationales de d’jazz, 2003, Nevers, France
- JAZZ de J à ZZ, 2003, L’Espal, Le Mans, France
- L'oeil de l'elephant, 2006, Rencontres d'Arles, France
Awards[]
- Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris, 1998
References[]
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