At the Carnavalet Museum, in Paris, the Parisian wanderings of Agnès Varda

We thought we knew everything about Agnes Varda (1928-2019). Furthermore, in view of the exhibitions and retrospectives that have multiplied over the past ten years. Similarly, But the celebrity conquered by the dead artist in 2019. Furthermore, first as a filmmaker and then as a visual artist, masked carnavalet museum, paris, parisian wanderings a whole section of his work: his beginnings as a photographer. At the Carnavalet museum. an original and delightful exhibition, centered on the reports of Agnès Varda with the city of Paris, rich in 130 vintage prints and unpublished documents from the Archives of Agnes Varda, gives the opportunity to discover its singular and free look, which mixes fantasy with a much darker strangeness.

Of 1951 When she died. Agnès Varda lived at the same address, at 86 rue Daguerre (a providential name for a photographer), in the 14th^e borough. Rather than an apartment. she had persuaded her father to buy him what was at the time a slum, without heating and with outdoor toilets: two shops and their outbuildings, carnavalet museum, paris, parisian wanderings separated by a courtyard. The exhibition reconstitutes. revives this picturesque place that has become both its place of residential and a central point in his work – workshop, shooting studio for friends and actors, location, even exhibition location.

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