Location
  • 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris
Key people
Diane Dufour
Websiteen.le-bal.com

Le Bal is an independent arts centre in Paris.[1] It focuses on documentary photography, video, cinema and new media through exhibitions, production, book publishing, talks and debates.

Le Bal has around 350 m² of exhibition space divided across two floors; a bookshop, Le Bal Books;[2] and café, Le Bal Café.[3][4] It is located off Place de Clichy at 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris. It opened in September 2010. Its director is Diane Dufour (who was European Director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2006).[5]

Details

The building is a former 1930s dance hall called Chez Isis.

Le Bal co-publishes two or three books each year, including L’Anti-collection, a limited-edition artist’s book which it jointly publishes with the Centre national des arts plastiques, and Les Carnets du Bal.[6]

Le Bal’s educational platform, La Fabrique du Regard, has run programmes since 2008 for young people aged 8–18, especially from disadvantaged areas of Paris and its suburbs, to critically look at images.[7][8]

Le Bal Books is run by Sébastian Hau.

Le Bal Café is operated by Alice Quillet, Anna Trattles and Anselme Blayney.[4][9][10] It serves a French take on traditional British cuisine.

Since 2010 Le Bal has been involved with the annual Prix des Ecoles d’Art SFR Jeunes Talents / Le Bal (The SFR / Le Bal award for young photography with ADAGP).[n 1] It is a competition open to art school students and former students who graduated less than three years before entering. It carries a 5000 Euro prize intended to support the winner for two years in making or completing a documentary photography project.[11][12]

Antoine D'Agata's Anticorps (2013), a catalogue published by Le Bal and Éditions Xavier Barral for his retrospective at Le Bal, won the Rencontres d'Arles Author’s Book Award in 2013.[13] In 2015, the book Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015) won the Photography Catalogue of the Year award in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.[14][15]

Exhibitions

Publications

Notes

  1. ^ ADAGP is Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques; SFR is Société française du radiotéléphone
  2. ^ PMU, Pari mutuel urbain, is the French state-controlled betting system.

References

  1. ^ "Le Bal. A new venue for the document image to open in Paris". Art Daily.
  2. ^ "Paris Photo / Books". 19 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Trail of the unexpected: Paris' coffee culture". Independent.co.uk. 22 October 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Now Serving Spring at le Bal Café". 4 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Dufour, Diane". 28 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Les Carnets Du Bal". Le Bal. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  7. ^ Interview between Diane Dufour and Mark Feustel. FOAM Magazine. Issue #25, Winter 2010. ISBN 9789070516208. http://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/25_traces http://www.marcfeustel.com/foam-25/
  8. ^ "In a Few Words..." Le Bal. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  9. ^ "- Eurostar". www.eurostar.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-17.
  10. ^ "Who is Chef Alice Quillet Anselme Blayney? [Everything You Need to Know]". 22 August 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Young Photographers at Le Bal". Le Bal. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  12. ^ a b "Samuel Gratacap: Empire / Le Bal Award for Young Artists with ADAGP". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.[permanent dead link]
  13. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (8 July 2013). "Lost and found: Discovery award winners at Recontres d'Arles 2013". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  14. ^ "Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards". Aperture Foundation. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  15. ^ Lowry, Rachel (13 November 2015). "Winners Announced for 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards". Time. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  16. ^ "Anonymes: L'Amérique sans nom : photographie et cinéma". Le Bal. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  17. ^ Smyth, Diane (2010). "The View from the Streets". British Journal of Photography. 157 (7783). Incisive Financial Publishing Limited: 58–61.
  18. ^ "Foto/Gráfica: a New History of the Latin-American Photobook" (PDF). Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  19. ^ "2012 Program of Le Bal" (PDF). Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  20. ^ "Chris Killip What Happened / Great Britain 1970-1990". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  21. ^ "Antoine D'Agata Anticorps". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  22. ^ "Antoine d'Agata, 'Anticorps'". 25 February 2013.
  23. ^ "S'IL Y A LIEU JE PARS AVEC VOUS - Paris Photo Agenda". www.parisphoto.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  24. ^ "Antoine d'Agata". Fotomuseumdenhaag.nl. 2012-09-02. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  25. ^ "Anticorpi di Antoine d'Agata – fino a Domenica 1 settembre 2013". Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  26. ^ "アントワーヌ・ダガタ 「抗体」 - Schedule - スケジュール - アツコバルー ATSUKOBAROUH arts drinks talk". Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  27. ^ "Mark Cohen: Dark Knees (1969 - 2012)". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  28. ^ "A Conversation About Mark Cohen's Dark Knees". 7 May 2014.
  29. ^ "Dark Knees - Photographs by Mark Cohen".
  30. ^ "Mark Cohen: The photographer who literally shoots from the hip". TheGuardian.com. 22 October 2013.
  31. ^ "Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair".
  32. ^ "Kourtney Roy: Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  33. ^ "Kourtney Roy: The woman who turned empty racetracks into an artform". TheGuardian.com. 9 May 2014.
  34. ^ "Le BAL: Kourtney Roy, Winner". 7 May 2014.
  35. ^ "Lewis Baltz: Common Objects". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  36. ^ "S'il y a Lieu je Pars Avec Vous: Sophie Calle - Julien Magre - Stéphane Couturier - Alain Bublex - Antoine d'Agata". Le Bal. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  37. ^ "LE BAL - Independent venue focusing on the image-as-document in all its forms – photography, video, film and the new media".
  38. ^ "Léa Habourdin et Thibault Brunet: Les Immobiles / Carte Blanche PMU 2014". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  39. ^ L’Oeil de la Photographie Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
  40. ^ "Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  41. ^ "Mark Lewis: Above and Below". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  42. ^ "Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence". Le Bal. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  43. ^ "Images of Conviction at le Bal, Paris – Aperture NY". 29 June 2015.
  44. ^ "Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence | Burden of Proof | The Photographers' Gallery". thephotographersgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015.
  45. ^ "Paris : Empire by Samuel". 14 September 2015.
  46. ^ "A Handful of Dust - From the Cosmic to the Domestic". Le Bal. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  47. ^ "A Handful of Dust From the Cosmic to the Domestic - Paris Photo Agenda". www.parisphoto.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
  48. ^ "Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960-1975". Le Bal. 18 July 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.

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