Workshops carried out by schools and social structures in the Gare Quartier, the city of Strasbourg and beyond.
Workshops designed by Stimultania.
With the École des Romains - Koenigshoffen, the École des XV, the École Saint-Jean, the Lycée Kléber, the Lycée Notre Dame, the European School, and the CROUS Strasbourg.
As well as Entraide Le Relais - Ateliers Passerelle, the Institut Médico-Éducatif Eurométropole ARSEA - Ganzau site, the Parent-Child Care Center, the Childhood Center, the Association of Friends of MAMCS, the ART-27 Association.
As part of the exhibition Walk in the picture, dedicated to the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, presented from 04.07 to 01.11.2020.
Curator: Cédric de Veigy.
The exhibition Walk in the picture reveals the work of André Kertész: this Hungarian photographer takes us with him on his wanderings of Paris in the 30s… breath of fresh air!
André Kertész (1894, Budapest - 1985, Paris), whose original first name is Andor, grew up in Hungary. He comes from a peasant background: what could be more logical for someone whose last name means "gardener", or "horticulturalist", in Hungarian!
After living in Budapest, he left in 1925 for new horizons, in the French capital. Extremely meticulous photographer, until then a follower of the standing camera, in 1933 he acquired a Leica III camera, much lighter and more practical for the time: he could then wander much more freely in the streets of the city, and thus take us with him behind his lens.
In the exhibition, the original arrangement of the images inside the frames then makes us follow all the movements of the photographer: when he bends down, takes a step to the side, or waits a few moments for his subject to progress through the viewfinder… André Kertész literally makes us “walk in the image”.
workshop "PUZZLE"
The children were asked to reconstruct an image of the exhibition (a photograph or a film), thanks to the playful process of the puzzle.
This workshop was based on the very principle of the exhibition: presenting a research work which made it possible to date hundreds of films mixed and stored in the reserves of the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, the curator effectively succeeded to recompose entire films by spotting similar scissors cut marks, writing split in two, etc.
workshop "ESTATE FOUND ”
André Kertész lets life unfold naturally in front of his camera when he captures images, and never forces a fictitious narration. However, life is going well, and the principle of photo sequences taken a few minutes apart, in addition to the perceptible postures taken by the photographer, allows the visitor to project himself into the scene, into these moments of life. Like a kind of photo novel, it's up to us to give them meaning ...
The children had at their disposal some reproductions taken from the different sequences of the exhibition (“Above the eyes”, “Hang the gaze”, “Follow with the gaze”, “Stride with the gaze”, “Stroll”, etc.), that they could reorder according to their inspiration, then that they connected them according to a logical narrative thread. A theme was given to stimulate the story.
WORKSHOP "BY YOUR VIEW"
The shots presented throughout the exhibition capture moments of life in the public space. André Kertész, naturally shy, begins to photograph the street from the windows of his apartment, “Above looks”. He then gradually approaches his subjects, like a front tracking shot in the cinema. In the "Insert the gaze" part, he descends, again discreetly, to the same level of the scenes photographed. He then takes the pulse of urban life in the section “Follow with a gaze”, then finally comes into direct contact with his models in “Hanging with a gaze”. The relationship is established, and it is more intimate portraits that make up the part "Penetrating the gaze". Finally, as in a backward tracking shot, the part "Tread the gaze" takes a step back, and works on the perspective of the landscape he is given to photograph.
Like the photographer, participants would venture into the public space, equipped with digital cameras, to apply the photographic method presented in the exhibition. A restitution of the shots was sent to the participants after the workshop.
“SEEN BY…” WORKSHOP
Along with his artistic production, André Kertész also works as a journalist photographer for various magazines. An extremely rigorous character, he went so far as to supervise the layout of an entire article, in addition to the cropping of his own photographs, as he quickly grasped all the subtleties and meanings that one or the other could create. other choice of layout.
From the photographs provided, the participants cut, collated, cropped the images to give them the desired meaning, and imagined an article title and brief content for it.