En bonne compagnie ! (In good company!), collective portraits in the collections of the Familistère de Guise and the CRP/

Exhibition from 15 September to 13 November 2022
at le Familistère de Guise (02)

By uniting their collections, the Familistère de Guise and the CRP/ compare the work of two photographers who portray their community: Marie-Jeanne Dallet (1872-1941), a young Familistère resident who took up photography to represent the population and institutions of the “Social Palace” shortly before 1900; Kasimir Zgorecki (1904-1980), a former boilermaker who became a professional photographer, whose studio immortalized the Polish diaspora in the Pas-de-Calais region of France in the 1930s. For both of them, the collective portrait is a means of affirming the identity of a social group. Their images, whose codes are inherited from the pictorial tradition, show what makes a community. The popular character of the subjects, the sociological intention of the portraits as well as the intimacy of the artist with her models make all the originality of this double corpus of photographs.

PROGRAMME

> Opening – Thursday 15 September, 3pm

> Studio Photo Workshop, Saturday 17 September, Sunday 18 September, Thursday 27 October and Thursday 3rd November – 2pm
Info & reservations > Familistère de Guise

> Guided tour “In good company!”> every weekends (outside school vacations) and everyday (during school vacations) – 5pm
Info & reservations > Familistère de Guise

Website: www.familistere.com