Daido Moriyama - Love letters to photography / Seaside Nights - Eboro
Two exhibitions between photographic obsession and dreamlike journey.
Event information
Time: 2026-06-06 20:00 UTC – 2026-06-06 01:00 UTC
Place: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 79 rue des Archives, 75003, Paris
Price: Free
Tags: Nuit Blanche
About this event
He also made numerous pilgrimages in the footsteps of the very first photographer, the French Nicéphore Niépce. It begins in Dakar, Senegal: on July 22, 1986, his uncle Noël X. Ebony, a renowned journalist and playwright, disappeared under enigmatic circumstances. Many of his images, taken day by day, constitute forms of mise en abyme of the medium. In the Agni-Bona tradition, the nephew plays a key role in accompanying the uncle in his passage to the afterlife. Photography, Exhibition
Daido Moriyama - Love letters to photography
For Daido Moriyama, photography is alive, very much alive. For Nuits Balnéaires, this took the form of an exploration of how previous trajectories—historical or familial—influence or predetermine our own life journeys.
Nuits Balnéaires designed Eboro intuitively, letting the affective power of places and family memory shape the interconnected visual chapters of this multi-layered work. They hold up a mirror to him.
The exhibition at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation is not a traditional retrospective with its series of masterpieces organized chronologically. Since the beginning of the 1960s, he has maintained a quasi-existential daily relationship with this form of recording the world, constantly addressing it in the form of projects, images or texts which, each time, have the value of declarations.
In 1972, his book Shasin yo sayonara — Farewell photography — deconstructed the accepted rules of good photographic practices. He welcomes the melancholy and trauma linked to his uncle's story with gentleness and hope, questioning the way in which imagination can contribute to the healing of transgenerational wounds.
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