Lhe Rochelais can thank David Fourrier, boss of La Sirène, and Pascal Mirande, head of the Carré Amelot photographic gallery. Thanks to the stubbornness of these two rock and image enthusiasts, in the coming weeks they will be able to meet David Lynch, Alain Bashung, Nick Cave, Kate Moss, Gena Rowlands and other photogenic stars…
Lhe Rochelais can thank David Fourrier, boss of La Sirène, and Pascal Mirande, head of the Carré Amelot photographic gallery. Thanks to the stubbornness of these two rock and image enthusiasts, in the coming weeks they will be able to meet David Lynch, Alain Bashung, Nick Cave, Kate Moss, Gena Rowlands and other photogenic stars, often in black and white, at the opportunity for a journey that will take them from Carré Amelot, to the Sirène to the Lantern Tower.
The pair managed to convince the famous photographer Richard Dumas to exhibit his best photos, some of which went around the world. Which, according to the latter, is obviously not an easy thing. He still works a lot. That same day, because he was in La Rochelle, he had to refuse to shoot the portrait of the Italian architect Renzo Piano for “Libération”. And the Musée du quai Branly, in Paris, has just ordered 120 portraits of musical instruments from him.
The portrait of the singer Patti Smith by Richard Dumas, to be discovered at La Sirène until July 18.
Richard Dumas
Carte blanche
From this week until July 18, 2024, “Richard Dumas in three breaks” looks back on more than thirty years of career which took the photographer to rub shoulders with the great figures of rock and cinema from Keith Richards to Jean-Luc Godard in by way of Miles Davis. The author of these iconic photos, made to order for publication in “Libération”, “Le Monde” and “Les Inrockuptibles”, was given carte blanche to compose his pantheon of celebrities.
Patti Smith, John Lydon (Sex Pistols) and Pete Townshend (The Who) to celebrate the rockers, at the Sirène from May 3 to July 18, Bashung, Miossec but also anonymous people and landscapes in small format, at Carré Amelot du 30 April to June 28 or Clint Eastwood, Maria de Medeiros and Kirsten Dunst, Tour de la Lanterne from June 28 to July 18, in homage to the seventh art. As for the Ephemeral Gallery (27 quai Maubec), it will host music videos created by the photographer from June 28 to July 7.
Richard Dumas
Clint Eastwood by photographer Richard Dumas.
Public meeting
We recognize his style in the very framed portraits, the unsmiling faces, the very contrasting black and white. Don’t talk to Richard Dumas about the studio, who never learned the art of seizing the right moment. His shortest photo session? “With Kevin Costner at the Cannes Film Festival. I had chosen the place, the right light, I had just found the right framing, and there in my photo, I see a hand tapping the shoulder. It was his press officer who came to pick him up. She told me, I’ll bring him back to you in 5 minutes but he never came back. When “Libé” told me that it wasn’t going to be easy to choose a shot, I told them that I only had One image,” he says.
One of his most beautiful photos? “With Bashung. He was leaving the hospital where he had just started chemo. I had a friend come who did stone massages. I didn’t take any photos for three hours. We went to eat sausages in a bistro, and then we started in the afternoon. We ended up in the Bois de Boulogne for his album “L’Imprudence”. »
This Friday, at 7 p.m., at La Sirène (https://la-sirene.fr/exposition-richard-dumas), the man who is also a guitarist will continue to tell anecdotes during a public meeting.
