PAST EXHIBITION

François-Marie Banier

June 2, 2007—August 3, 2007

Banier, a prolific photographer, is also a well-known playwright and novelist whose published works include Le Passé Composé (1971) and Balthazar, Fils de Famille (1985). Along with other unflinching chroniclers of modern life such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lisette Model, and Diane Arbus, since the 1970s Banier has captured the world’s social, literary, theatrical, fashion, and political scenes, from Vladimir Horowitz and Samuel Beckett to Silvana Mangano, Yves St. Laurent, and Johnny Depp. This heady mix is leavened by the tough, penetrating, and highly empathic portraits he takes of anonymous yet unforgettable street people, whose faces, bodies, stances, and expressions bear witness to the inexorable march of time and fate.

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