Le Bal (arts centre)

Location
  • 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris
Key people
Diane Dufour
Website en.le-bal.com

Le Bal is an independent arts centre in Paris.[1] It focuses on documentary photography, video, cinema and new media through exhibitions, production, book publishing, talks and debates.

Le Bal has around 350 m² of exhibition space divided across two floors; a bookshop, Le Bal Books;[2] and café, Le Bal Café.[3][4] It is located off Place de Clichy at 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris. It opened in September 2010. Its director is Diane Dufour (who was European Director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2006).[5]

Details

The building is a former 1930s dance hall called Chez Isis.

Le Bal co-publishes two or three books each year, including L’Anti-collection, a limited-edition artist’s book which it jointly publishes with the Centre national des arts plastiques, and Les Carnets du Bal.[6]

Le Bal’s educational platform, La Fabrique du Regard, has run programmes since 2008 for young people aged 8–18, especially from disadvantaged areas of Paris and its suburbs, to critically look at images.[7][8]

Le Bal Books is run by Sébastian Hau.

Le Bal Café is operated by Alice Quillet, Anna Trattles and Anselme Blayney.[4][9][10] It serves a French take on traditional British cuisine.

Since 2010 Le Bal has been involved with the annual Prix des Ecoles d’Art SFR Jeunes Talents / Le Bal (The SFR / Le Bal award for young photography with ADAGP).[n 1] It is a competition open to art school students and former students who graduated less than three years before entering. It carries a 5000 Euro prize intended to support the winner for two years in making or completing a documentary photography project.[11][12]

Antoine D'Agata's Anticorps (2013), a catalogue published by Le Bal and Éditions Xavier Barral for his retrospective at Le Bal, won the Rencontres d'Arles Author’s Book Award in 2013.[13] In 2015, the book Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015) won the Photography Catalogue of the Year award in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.[14][15]

Exhibitions

Publications

Notes

  1. ADAGP is Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques; SFR is Société française du radiotéléphone
  2. PMU, Pari mutuel urbain, is the French state-controlled betting system.

References

  1. http://artdaily.com/news/40320/LE-BAL--A-New-Venue-for-the-Document-Image-to-Open-in-Paris
  2. https://icplibrary.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/paris-photo-books/
  3. http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/trail-of-the-unexpected-paris-coffee-culture-2309015.html
  4. 1 2 http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/now-serving-spring-at-le-bal-cafe/
  5. http://rencontres-arles-photo.tv/en/artiste/dufour-diane/
  6. "Les Carnets Du Bal". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  7. Interview between Diane Dufour and Mark Feustel. FOAM Magazine. Issue #25, Winter 2010. ISBN 9789070516208. http://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/25_traces http://www.marcfeustel.com/foam-25/
  8. "In a Few Words...". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  9. http://www.eurostar.com/us-en/destination/country/france/place/91418
  10. http://www.thegannet.com/interviews/meals/breakfast/2015/03/alice-quillet-anselme-blayney/
  11. 1 2 "Young Photographers at Le Bal". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  12. 1 2 "Samuel Gratacap: Empire / Le Bal Award for Young Artists with ADAGP". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  13. O'Hagan, Sean (8 July 2013). "Lost and found: Discovery award winners at Recontres d'Arles 2013". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  14. "Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards". Aperture Foundation. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  15. Lowry, Rachel (13 November 2015). "Winners Announced for 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards". Time (magazine). Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  16. "Anonymes: L’Amérique sans nom : photographie et cinéma". Le Bal. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  17. Smyth, Diane (2010). "The View from the Streets". British Journal of Photography (Incisive Financial Publishing Limited) 157 (7783): 58–61.
  18. "Foto/Gráfica: a New History of the Latin-American Photobook" (PDF). Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  19. "2012 Program of Le Bal" (PDF). Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  20. "Chris Killip What Happened / Great Britain 1970-1990". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  21. "Antoine D'Agata Anticorps". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  22. http://www.timeout.fr/paris/art/antoine-dagata-anticorps
  23. http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/sil-y-a-lieu-je-pars-avec-vous
  24. http://www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl/en/exhibitions/antoine-d%E2%80%99agata
  25. http://www.formafoto.it/2013/06/anticorpi-antoine-dagata/
  26. http://l-amusee.com/atsukobarouh/schedule/2014/0523.php
  27. "Mark Cohen: Dark Knees (1969 - 2012)". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  28. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/05/07/a-conversation-about-mark-cohens-dark-knees/
  29. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mark-cohen-dark-knees
  30. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/oct/22/mark-cohen-photographer-exhibition-paris
  31. http://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/
  32. "Kourtney Roy: Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  33. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/09/kourtney-roy-photography-race-tracks-le-bal-paris
  34. http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/05/06/exhibition/24839/le-bal-kourtney-roy-winner-of-the-carte-blanche-pmu-2013
  35. "Lewis Baltz: Common Objects". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  36. "S’il y a Lieu je Pars Avec Vous: Sophie Calle - Julien Magre - Stéphane Couturier - Alain Bublex - Antoine d'Agata". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  37. http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/dirk-braeckman/
  38. "Léa Habourdin et Thibault Brunet: Les Immobiles / Carte Blanche PMU 2014". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  39. L’Oeil de la Photographie http://odlp.co/2015/01/14/interview/26983/carte-blanche-pmu-2014-an-interview-with-lea-habourdin-and-thibault-brunet
  40. "Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  41. "Mark Lewis: Above and Below". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  42. "Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  43. http://aperture.org/blog/report-images-conviction-le-bal-paris/
  44. http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/burden-of-proof-the-construction-of-visual-evidence-4
  45. http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2015/09/14/exhibition/29680/paris-empire-by-samuel-gratacap-at-le-bal
  46. "A Handful of Dust - From the Cosmic to the Domestic". Le Bal. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  47. http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/handful-of-dust-from-the-cosmic-to-the-domestic

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