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EN\u00a0 \u2b62 FR<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Si on m\u2019avait dit. Mes vies de photographe
\n(If Someone Had Told Me: My Lives as a Photographer)<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

Jean-Claude Figenwald<\/h2>\n

Le S\u00e9choir, Mulhouse<\/strong>
\nJune 6 – July 5<\/span>
\nsaturday & sunday from 14 p.m. to 6 p.m.\u00a0<\/span>
\nInaugural guided tour on Sunday June 7 at 10 a.m.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This retrospective exhibition traces the five-decade career of photojournalist Jean-Claude Figenwald. After growing up in Mulhouse, he moved to Paris and became a staff reporter, working for various magazines while continuing his personal projects. His photographs reflect a relentless and personal gaze on reality, attentive to people, the environment, society, and current events. This photographer\u2019s professional and personal journey has taken him, over nearly fifty years, from the intimacy of his Parisian street to the wider world. An uninterrupted journey that has yielded images on a multitude of subjects.<\/p>\n

Exhibition organized in partnership with Mulhouse Art Contemporain<\/strong><\/p>\n

A self-taught photographer, Jean-Claude Figenwald learned photography at the Gamma and Magnum agencies in the mid-1970s. His first assignment was for the L.A. Times, for which he photographed fashion shows in the early 1980s. A recipient of the Air France-City of Paris Fellowship in 1983 and a freelancer for the Associated Press in Paris, he joined L\u2019Express to cover political, economic, and cultural life in Paris and throughout France. G\u00e9rard Rancinan hired him at his agency to produce magazine-style reports abroad, after which he joined Disney to document the construction of the future Marne-la-Vall\u00e9e park. In the mid-1990s, he worked for a new generation of magazines\u2014Citizen K, L\u2019Optimum, Glamour, Id\u00e9at, GQ, and Milk\u2014which gave him the opportunity to travel the world while developing an original photographic style. He completed a residency in 2002\u20132003 at La Filature in Mulhouse for an exhibition on community gardens. He is also the author of a book, <\/em>Comme il m\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9. Mes vies de photographe<\/span> (As It Was Given to Me: My Lives as a Photographer), published by M\u00e9diapop in May 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

jeanclaudefigenwald.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jean-Claude Figenwald, New-York, 1981\"\"<\/p>\n

Jean-Claude Figenwald, Russie, 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EN\u00a0 \u2b62 FR Si on m\u2019avait dit. 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