Lee Miller, Susan Meiselas, Babette Mangolte: women in the spotlight at the Rencontres d'Arles

Oppressed, liberated, witnesses of an era: women will be featured at the 53rd edition of the Rencontres photo d'Arles, a world-renowned festival, behind the lens and no longer just in front, like Lee Miller, muse of Man Ray but also war photographer.

,” said Christoph Wiesner, director of the festival, during the press conference presenting the festival on Tuesday in Arles.

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Flagship exhibition of this edition which will open on July 4, still unpublished in France,

will be presented all summer at the workshop of Mechanics, on the former site of the railway workshops transformed into cultural Center.

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As a follow-up to this exhibition, the Sainte-Anne church will present festival-goers with the work of French photographer Babette Mangolte and her shots of dance in New York in the 1970s, placing the viewer at the heart of the performance.

The movement of bodies still, but aging this time, is also explored by the American Susan Meiselas and her

immersive and acoustic

Also a witness to the passage of time, Léa Habourdin will immerse visitors in the heart of primary forests, of which she has developed pictures on prints that cannot withstand daylight, and which will therefore change between the beginning and the end of the season. summer, the time of their exhibition.

American photographer Susan Meiselas at the Jeu de Paume museum on February 2, 2018, in Paris.

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The Meetings wanted this year to

of Lee Miller, a model often reduced to her collaboration with the artist Man Ray, who was also, however, a talented portrait painter and a war photographer accompanying the American army in Europe. at the Liberation.

The war will also be present in another key exhibition, which retraces 160 years of photos of humanitarian action thanks to the archives of the Red Cross.

Photograph of Lee Miller by Man Ray in 1929, during the

exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin on March 18, 2016. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP

This edition will be dedicated to Olivier Etcheverry, scenographer of the Rencontres for more than 20 years, who died at the beginning of March.

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of the photo in unusual places

, according to the president of the festival, Hubert Védrine.

Forty exhibitions will be presented in Arles from July 4 to September 25 and 15 as part of the

, that is to say in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.