Thursday, July 27, 2017

Artist of the day, July 28: Harry Gruyaert, Belgian photographer

Harry Gruyaert (1941) studied photography and film-making. He made a few films as director of photography for Flemish television before turning to color photographs in his adopted Paris in the early 1960s.

By the end of the 1970s he had travelled to the United States, India, Egypt, Japan and Morocco. The latter was a revelation to Gruyaert whose images of the country were later published in two different books. In the early 1970s, while he was living in London, he worked on a series of color television screen shots later to become the TV Shots now part of the Centre Pompidou collections. Around the same period he also photographed his homeland and produced two books, Made in Belgium and Roots.

In 1982, he joined Magnum Photos. Among other important works, the two editions of Rivages (Edges), published in 2003 and 2008, are the testimony of how Gruyaert likes to work in different environments, with contrasting lights and colours. He had a retrospective of his work in Paris in 2015 and is currently working on a major show due to open at the FOMU in Antwerp in 2018. He now lives in Paris.


Mr  Harry Gruyaert

Iceland Sea, 1970
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Essaouira. Ramparts & fortified walls of the city.1975
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Maroc South. Erfout. 1975
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Marrakech. In the medina (old district). A bread vendor. 1975
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Rif Mountains. Chefchaouen. Street life. Walls are often painted in blue and white. 1975© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Binche, Belgium, 1981
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Brussels Gare du Midi district, 1981
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 1981
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 Meknes. Souk. Bowl of marinated lemons used in traditional cooking, 1981
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Province of Brabant, near the town of Wavre, 1981
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 Las Vegas, USA, 1982
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Los Angeles, 1982
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 Ireland. County Kerry, 1983
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

France. Ile-de-France region, Seine, Saint Denis department, La Courneuve, 1985
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Les Halles, Paris, France, 1985
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Maroc. Ouarzazate.1986
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Washington DC, USA, 1986
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Cairo During the Ramadan, 1987
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Belgium. Province of Brabant, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Essaouira. Amusement stands near the beachfront, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Flanders region. Town of Boom, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Ireland, West Coast, County Kerry, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Ostende, Belgium. Thermal palace, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 Ostende. Coffee on the beach, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Spa hotel, Ostend, Belgium, 1988
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Russia. Moscow. Gum department store entrance, 1989
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Russia. Moscow. Hotel lavatory, 1989
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Russia. Moscow. Ukraine Hotel, 1989
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 France. Picardie region. Bay of the Somme river. Fort Mahon, 1991
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Town of Antwerpen, Port industry, 1992
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Alexandria, Egypt. On the ledge of San Stephano beach, 1993
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 Aqueduct in Laterza, 1996
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Torino, Bar, 1997
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 Maroc, High Atlas, 1998
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

France, Biarritz, Covered market, 2000
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

 France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Berck beach, 2007
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Technip Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, 2008
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

Cairo, Egypt, 2011
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

London, U.K., 2012
© 2017, Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos

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