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The Cities of Jean-Michel Berts
By DE contributor | Photos to Inspire |
Nov 6, 2009
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Photographs from The Cities of Jean-Michel Berts’ series will be on view at NY's Sous Les Etoiles Gallery from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. This is Jean-Michel Berts’ second solo exhibition at Sous Les Etoiles.
There will be an opening reception on November 12th from 6-9 pm at the gallery. The gallery is located at 560 Broadway between Prince & Spring streets in Soho.
The Cities work of Jean-Michel Berts began nearly ten years ago, almost by accident. a "I was in Venice and the Piazza San Marco was flooded. I didn’t plan to take any images, but the atmosphere was so exceptional that I could not resist," he remembers. Returning to Paris, he discovered the film inside his camera was black and white, not color as he had thought. It was at that moment when he rediscovered the pleasures of working in black and white.
Jean-Michel Berts collects the essence of cities in his body of work called City Portrait. His glance is there to remind us of the grandeur of civilizations. The abstraction of characters makes it possible to put human construction forward and thus reanimate timelessness. Whether Paris, New York, Venice, London or Tokyo, through his eyes these sublimated cities take on a poetic, ethereal and dreamlike value. Jean-Michel Berts prefers to take pictures early the morning because, as he likes to say, "during this period of time, crossing emotions, feelings and atmosphere, this is always when the images come to me."
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