100 masterpieces of photography Pinault Collection [English version]

Since 2006, photography has occupied a large place within the Pinault Collection. From Gustave Le Gray to Cindy Sherman, from Irving Penn to Wolfgang Tillmans, Raymond Depardon or Lee Miller, the successive exhibitions of these different artworks tell a history of the photographic medium based on a sensitive collection that spans from the nineteenth century to the present day. Both historical and contemporary, the collection reflects all the richness and diversity of the photographic medium.

Favoring large ensembles, the Pinault Collection has notably acquired, in 2014, one of the six editions of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Master Collection”: one set of 385 photographs. More recently, Pinault Collection acquired of an exceptional set from the Condé Press Photographs Fund Nast.

Texts by Matthieu Humery, photography specialist, working as a curator for Pinault Collection and director of the Living Archives program at LUMA Arles foundation and Sylvie Aubenas, archivist and paleographer, specialist of the nineteenth century photography.

A selection of photographs by Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, Julia Margareth Cameron, Edmond Bacot, Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Constantin Brancusi, Laure Albin-Guillot, Jaromir Funke, Paul Strand, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, André Kertesz, Frantisek Drtikol, El Lissitzky, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Claude Cahun, Sherril Schell, Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cecil Beaton, August Sander, Rudolf Koppitz, Lusha Nelson, Alexander Rodchenko, Paul Outerbridger, Dora Maar, Dorothea Lange, Robert Capa, Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P. Horst, Toni Frissell, Lee Miller, Irving Penn, Robert Doisneau, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus, Werner Bischof, Richard Avedon, Meret Oppenheim, Ugo Mulas, David Bailey, Raymond Depardon, William Eggleston, Helmut Newton, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano, Louise Lawler, Nabuyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Maurizio Cattelan, presented in chronological order.