Toulouse highlights Jean Dieuzaide, a great name in film photography
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the city of Toulouse is celebrating Jean Dieuzaide, a famous photographer born in Granada (Haute-Garonne), with a exhibition in the refectory of the Jacobins. Thanks to the Dieuzaide photographic fund, acquired by the town hall in 2016, the municipal archives have preserved more than 600,000 ng, prints, contact sheets, books of this great name in silver photography. To mount this exceptional retrospective, Françoise Denoyelle, photography historian and curator of the exhibition “Jean Dieuzaide – 60 years of photographs”, worked for fourteen months on 150 linear meters of archives, in order to select 148 works.
“Jean Dieuzaide is a great photographer who didn’t have the aura he deserved. So, to make this exhibition, it was necessary to have a purpose, to take a new look at this work, explains Françoise Denoyelle. When I arrived, I was amazed to see that there were a lot of elements (albums, contact sheets, texts, negatives, etc.) that would allow me to put on an exhibition. There are known photos, others less and orders because Jean Dieuzaide belongs to this generation of photographers who worked on order”.
The visitor can thus admire the famous Dali in the water, The Little Girl with a Rabbit, The Wedding of the Tightrope Walkers or The Gitane of the Sacromonte. They can also discover more confidential works such as the photo of empty chairs called Dialogues chez mes grands-parents, industrial works commissioned for the company Aquitaine Chimie and even abstract images such as the series on pitch.
In addition to the exhibition which lasts until March 6, 2022, a cycle of conferences around the work of Jean Dieuzaide and its different facets is planned for this month of January.