Francoise Huguier @ Polka Galerie

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Francoise Huguier @ Polka Galerie

September 11th, 2024 by fstop

Francoise Huguier: Color, instructions for use
September 13 to October 26, 2024

“Between field journalism and acid-pop stagings straight out of the 80s, Françoise Huguier ‘s fashion photographs appear on the walls of the Polka gallery from September 13 to October 26.

The program includes: single-print Cibachromes bursting with color and vaporous Polaroids that embody what the journalist and critic Gérard Lefort — who was, with Christian Caujolle, one of the first to send the reporter into the field of haute couture and fashion shows in the daily newspaper Libération — calls “Huguier’s touch”: “this tilted, twisted, bent framing, which is his trademark.”

A fascinating geometry elevated to the rank of a secret recipe, which she has made her own to shake up and sublimate the fashion image on behalf of the greats “Vogue”, “Marie-Claire” or “New York Times Magazine”. Before Françoise Huguier’s lens, twenty years of ready-to-wear and couture parade by, captured by an eye that takes advantage of an era when editorial offices had the means to match their ambition.

But also a culture of reporting that constitutes the crucible of her inspirations. Taking the viewer along side roads to the whole world. From Russia to West Africa via Cambodia, Indonesia or Japan, whose filmmakers such as Ozu, Kurosawa or Mizoguchi she praises as an inveterate cinephile. From these masters of framing, she has kept a lesson: “the foreground is fundamental, it is what gives dimension and movement.” A principle dear to great reporters, which has remained dear to the one who was elected, in January 2023, to the photography section of the Academy of Fine Arts.”

Polka Galerie — 12, rue Saint-Gilles, Paris IIIe

Location: France, Paris Type: Exhibition

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