May 2014 – Arles Les Baux de Provence
Morocco in the spotlight at the Arles festival - Les Baux de Provence. For its 14th edition, Morocco will be strongly represented at the Baux de Provence festival, directed by Bruno Rédarès. The Festival takes place from 08 at 18 May 2014.
The Maison de la Photographie de Marrakech presents around forty humanist portraits from the period 1880-1940,. 1839, Morocco is not an obligatory stage of the Grand Tour. The country remains a terra incognita. With the exception of the archaeological missions of Henri de La Martinière, in Volubilis, in 1884 -1888, the first photographic workshops will be set up from the years 1870 in Tetouan and Tangier: Cavilla, the Levys, are among the most prolific. Ethnography and exoticism are still mixed in a "Moroccan fascination". The Jewish community, more open, provides the opportunity for portraits of great interest where the eyes of the operators meet the eyes of the people photographed, the Arab population is more often the subject of indirect photographs: scenes and genre, landscapes ...
The photographs presented here under the title: "Multiple Morocco, land of sharing ”are therefore drawings of light, real iconographic treasures.