Jean-Christian Bourcart

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JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART - Photographer in residence
Born in 1960, Jean-Christian Bourcart is a French photographer who lives between New York and France.
He started out as a wedding photographer before moving on to the press. A portrait photographer, but also a specialist in intimate subjects, he photographs and then films, in a clandestine manner, the brothels of Frankfurt (Madones Infertiles) or the swingers' clubs of New York (Forbidden City). In 1993, he co-directed a fiction film shot during the war in Bosnia (Elvis). In 2004, his series Traffic shows New Yorkers stuck in traffic jams. In the summer of 2005, he projected images of Iraqi victims on American houses (Collateral). For the series, Stardust, he photographs the blurred image on the glass that separates the projector's booth from the audience's room in movie theaters.
from the audience's room.
At the same time, he directs films, including a feature film in 2010 (Remembering the Days to Come). He is also the author of an illustrated autobiography and a documentary, Camden, about one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. Winner of many prestigious awards, his work is present in the collections of MoMa in New York, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and the Mamco in Geneva. 

Jean-Christian Bourcart in Normandy
Blow up Normandy; fragments of a chronology of chance Jean-Christian Bourcart draws a colorful portrait of Normandy. He offers a kaleidoscopic vision through portraits and details of daily life that evoke, document and question our human experience of the territory.

 


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The Embarcadère, Deauville


 

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