Born in 1950, Bernard Faucon created his photographic oeuvre between 1976 and 1995. It is one of the most original and important bodies of work of the late 20th century.

Often exhibited, reproduced, borrowed, and collected, Faucon's work, paradoxically, has a place in contemporary creation still ill defined. This is due as much to its singularity, it is a poetic, metaphysical, highly personal body of work, as to the diverse group inspired by it, from the most classic and orthodox in the photographic world to avant-garde artists, as well as novelist, directors, psychoanalysts, Japanese fashion designers.

Faucon's work is a succession of 6 or 7 series organized as a great journey : Les grandes vacances (The long vacation) (1976-1981), Evolution probable du temps (The probable evolution of time) (1981-1984), Les chambres (Chambres d'amour, Chambres d'hiver, Chambres d'or) (The rooms : rooms of love, winter rooms, golden rooms) (1984-1988), Les Idoles et les Sacrifices (Idols and sacrifices) (1989-1991), Les Ècritures (The writings) (1991-1993), and La fin de l'Image (The end of the Image) (1993-1995).

15 years after the voluntary interruption of this work, it is amazing to rediscover the rigor and logic behind the surprising innovation of his metamorphoses. His themes and obsessions evolve with an economy of means that increases up until the last series, entitled La fin de l'Image (The end of the Image): an intentional and decisive closure from which Bernard Faucon has not returned.

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Born in Apt in Provence, 1950.
Educated at The Lycée d'Apt in Provence, 1962-1969.
Studied at The Sorbonne, Paris, 1969-1973 (Master's degree of Philosophy 1973).
Painting from 1966 to 1976.
Photographic Settings 1977-1995.
Main recipient : Grand Prix National, France, 1989.
More than 300 individual exhibitions since 1977, in Western Europe, The United States and Japan, frequent shows at Léo Castelli, New-York, Agathe Gaillard and Yvon Lambert, Paris Decides in 1997 to suspend his own photographic works.
Organizes from 1997 to 2005, in twenty five countries in the world, the event "The happiest day of my youth" involving hundred young people in each country.
Publishes in 1999 his first book of texts only: La peur du voyage and in 2006 his Catalogue raisonné accompanying his first complete Retrospective in Paris at Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
Last publication Été 2550, Actes Sud, France.

To see more of Bernard Faucon's work, please visit his website.

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