Bruno de Monès is a French photographer, born in Orléans. He is known for his black and white portraits of artists and intellectuals such as Klaus Kinski, Charles Aznavour, Salvador Dalí, Burt Lancaster and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Life After having spent his teenage years in Morocco, Bruno de Monès moved to Paris in the mid-seventies. He became the assistant of fashion photographer Jean Clemmer; then, in 1976, he joined the audiovisual department of the Charles of the Ritz / Yves Saint Laurent perfumes company as photographer and assistant director. During this time, he decided to make portraits of personalities from the arts. These black and white pictures in sharp contrast were the subject of an exhibition at the Espace Canon (Les Yeux du miroir, Paris, 1980) and were published in a photograph album (Visages connus, faces caches.Cf. article L'automne des portraits by Bloch and Pesenti, in December 1983 Nouvelles littéraires issue)
In the years 1980–1990, he worked for newspapers and was one of the official photographers of the Magazine Littéraire.Source : April 1983 Zoom issue He took famous photographs of numerous writers and intellectuals. He also worked in the ads and fashionSource : Un univers, un regard, une ambiance by Karyn Fauquet in Zoom no. 131 with essentially Japanese published works.Works studied in the article Étoffe de Nuits by Mathias Schmitt, in Magazine Photo no. 88 (1987) In 1994, he was one of the founders of the Mois off de la photo in Paris.
In 2010, a retrospective exhibition on his work was organised in Paris (Théâtre de l'Odéon). More than 100 portraits were exhibited under the arcades of the theatre and in the streets around.Exhibition of 100 portraits by Bruno de Monès at the Théâtre de l’Odéon (and around) Since the 1980s until today, the works of Bruno de Monès are published in French newspapers and magazines.Such as: Libération, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Paris-Match, Le Magazine Littéraire, Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur, Marie-Claire, Biba, Cosmopolitan, Télérama, Psychologies, L'Histoire, Sciences Humaines, GQ, Vanity Fair The photographer is also frequently published in Europe, America and Asia.Main countries: Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, USA, Japan, Brazil Since 2010, he has been working on scriptwriting projects.
Bibliography
Visages connus, Faces cachées, La Butte aux Cailles (1983) The Fourfold View of a Star, Heaven (1993), published in Japan and the United States Publication in third-party works: Portraits pour un siècle / Cent écrivains: portraits of Michel Foucault and V. S. Naipaul (Gallimard and Roger-Viollet, 2011) Aznavour en haut de l'affiche, by Charles Aznavour (Flammarion, 2011) "Quelques philosophes": portraits of famous philosophers in La Règle du jeu's issue nr. 74 (dir. Bernard Henri Levy, ed. Grasset, novembre 2021) Publication of personal projects: Zoom no. 81, 97, 131 Vis à vis International Photographies Magazine Photo Revue
Significant works
Photographs: Klaus Kinski, 1977 Serge Gainsbourg, 1978 Françoise Hardy, 1978 Burt Lancaster, 1979 Michel Foucault, 1984 Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1985 Gilles Deleuze, 1988 Jean Nouvel, 1991 Fashion: fashion prestige booklet for the clothing line Be Released (Tokyo, 1986) Ads: 4m x 3m poster campaign for the concerts of Claude Nougaro in Paris (Olympia) and province, and realisation of two album covers, 1981 Advertising campaign (print and display): Paco Rabanne for Japon en 1987 Intervention in the media: Participations in José Arthur's Pop-Club (France Inter) between 1978 and 1993 Le Barbier de nuit (Europe 1) with Léo Malet
Noteworthy exhibitions
Le Bistrot d'Isa, Paris, Septembre 1977 Les Yeux du miroir, Espace Canon in Paris, 1980 Objectif Mode with Thierry Arditti, Cynthia Hampton, Paolo Calia and Satoshi, Galerie Viviane Esders in Paris, 1988 Gueules de Stars (with Eddy Brière), Galerie-Librairie le 29 in Paris, 2010 Exposition de 100 portraits de Bruno de Monès au Théâtre de l'Odéon (et autour), rétrospective in Paris, 2010 Galerie Intuiti, Paris, 2014
References
External links
Bruno de Monès' official website Bruno de Monès – Roger-Viollet Agency : the agency holds the exclusive distribution rights of many Bruno de Monès' photographs Page of the National Library of France dedicated to Bruno de Monès