Major Photography Expositions

40 Years of the Rencontres d'Arles, 40 Years of Ruptures, Major Photography Expositions

Posted: 23 May 2011 07:19 PM PDT

ARLES, FRANCE -  One way of celebrating 40 years of such a vulnerable enterprise might be to invite all those who have so generously put their work on show here. Yet nostalgia and extolling the great deeds of the past might not to appropriate for the Rencontres, whose history is made up of ongoing creative ventures, photographers pushing back the boundaries of the still image, and uncertain periods of transition. A history that has never been so effervescent.