Working Class Hero, 40 years of photography at CRP/

Exhibition from 20 October to 16 November 2022
at Silo U1, Château-Thierry (02)

Industry is widely represented in the CRP/’s collections. Beyond the machines and factories, it is above all the human beings that the artists have endeavored to immortalize through photography. Marked physicality, imposing, codified dress and gestures, behind the physical characteristics worn by this despised figure as much as mystified, it is the courage and pugnacity that we read in hollow. True microcosm, the working world fascinates by its powerful symbolic so photogenic and by its capacity to translate the hardness of a whole society as the violence of its system. A journey through a panel of works representative of several eras that shows a form of continuity in time: François Kollar with La France Travaille in the 1930s, Bruce Gilden in the middle of the 1990s, or Claire Chevrier in 2010.

List of exhibitde artists: Joseph Quentin, Claire Chevrier, Jerzy Lewczyński, François Kollar, Bruce Gilden

PROGRAMME

> Opening and meeting with Claire Chevrier – Thursday 20 October, 6pm

Website: www.chateau-thierry.fr