To do/questions:
- Visit the exhibition!
- How does Bertrand Meunier depict the Quartier Saint-Jacques (what do his photos show and how does the photographer depict what he shoots)?
- Is it a fair/accurate depiction?
- What do we learn about life in Saint-Jacques from the video interviews of residents?
- Choose your favorite photo in the exhibition, describe it and say what you like about it.
- Write a short critique of the exhibition and send it as a "comment" to this blog.
Assignment (pair work):
- Research the Quartier Saint-Jacques.
- Study other photo series by Bertrand Meunier.
- Take your own pictures of the Quartier Saint-Jacques.
- Show your pictures as a slideshow (include music and comments).
- How do your pictures differ from the photos of Bertrand Meunier?
14 comments:
Really realistic exhibition Of the Quartier St Jacques' life and world ! we needed it ! Thanks !
This exhibition shows us many faces of the Quartier Saint-Jacques. On the one hand, we have the way the photos are displayed in the exhibiton. The photos of places and photos of people are in separated groups and are facing each other, or by the side of each other. It seperates the people and the places in which they live. On the other hand, we have what the photos shows and what they are telling us. Bertrand Meunier wanted to highlight the feeling of emptiness of the Quartier Saint-Jacques. He also worked on the perspectives in his photos. This exhibition makes us think of how we see this kind of district and makes us change our minds about the prejudices against the people living there.
In this exposition of Bertrand Meunier, we see that the poverty is real and just beside us. Even if we are a developed country.
With the black and white, Meunier wants to represent poverty such as it is.
It's a very interessant exposition with a lots of beautiful photos taking by a good photograph.
I agree with you!
B.Meunier depicts Quartier Saint-Jacques in an objective manner. Each photo is categorised according to her nature. Meunier stay neutral, he don't influence the public. That is signifiant of the photographer's talent. Also, it is very suprising and appreciable to find an exhibition on Saint Jacques in one of the greatest street of Clermont-FD ! Congratulations Meunier.
Bertrand Meunier is interested in people and places of the Quartier Saint-Jacques. This area is seen as a sensitive place but in this exhibition, the photographer respects a kind of neutrality and of farness. I think it’s important. There are a lot of portraits and architectures, which show the Quartier Saint-Jacques life. The poverty of people is present but the pictures make us understand that we have prejudices against Saint-Jacques residents and that the stereotype we have is wrong.
With this exposition, Bertrand Meunier wants to show his vision of the neightborhood.He uses pictures in balck and white to show the gloom and the lives of his habitants. There are two kinds of photography, represents the place and represents those persons who lives here. He represents the place as a dilapidated place who the walls were tagged and he represents the peoples as little happy and in their everyday activities. His main goal is probably to represent the district as fully as possible and all though her photos
I found this exhibition through a fascinating simplicity shows many true things and send us a message. It makes us discover the area in another way and makes us reflect on dweller's life.
This is an exhibition well worth a visit !!
a very interresting vision of the suburbs
In this exhibition, Bertrand Meunier shows us two différents quartier Saint Jacques.
The first is sad, like abandonned. Evrything is empty, dirty and nature has grown anarchically. Most of the people look desperate and don't even face the camera. Black and grey evrywhere, no hopes...
The other one is depicted by the habitants like happy and hopefull. They know how it is to live there.
It's a great exhibition that brakes stereotypes about that kind of place. Even if the photographs are well-taken, I find them too pessimistic.
Life is not that dark...
Bertrand Meunier immersed himself in the neighborhood and met its inhabitants in order to extract portraits and stories. Go beyond traditional thinking, prove that there is no curse and that we can force destiny, this is what emerges from this exposition!
I think this exhibition through a fascinating simplicity shows many true things and send us a message. It makes us discover the area in another way and makes us reflet on dweller's life.
Firstly, this exhibition is little inordinay because of the neutral picture shot by Bertand Meunier. Then those pictures by being neutral, send to us a very strong message concerning the new way of seeing this neighborhood.
Therefore this exhbition contradict the journalistic stereotypes and also depicts the area passively and darkly.
“What is missing in Saint-Jacques is background noise; the blank silence makes palpable the absence of the inhabitants.” I found this sentence in the exhibition guide and I think it is rather an apt description of the atmosphere of the photos; these, for the most part, show forgotten places, or vegetation colonizing concrete, or graffiti-covered walls. The photos are indeed about the strangeness of a part of town which is so silent, from which the people seem to have gone missing…
However, there are a few lonely portraits of the ostensible inhabitants (and wonderful video monologues too). Saint-Jacques is not as dangerous as the local media would have us believe; the portraits prove that there are also ordinary people in this “zone de sécurité prioritaire”…
Exhibitions like this are important because they make us think about our prejudices towards the ugly, the banal and boring. Is there poetry in poverty?
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