Membership guided tours — Remember Me
Faces, Still Lifes and Landscapes: A Gallery of Portraits
From Monday 12 October to Saturday 7 November
Photography records reality, preserving the memory of people and things. This tour explores the worlds of two iconic photographers: the American Irving Penn, renowned for his portraits of public figures, anonymous subjects and still lifes; and the French photographer Raymond Depardon, who travelled across France with his large-format camera, portraying the country through its landscapes.
© Irving Penn, Gerbera Daisy, 2006, Tirage, 23,9 × 32,8 cm, © Irving Penn, Condé Nast, Pinault Collection.
Documenting before Disappearance: Photography as Twentieth-Century Archaeology
From Monday 16 November to Saturday 5 December
Photography played a key role in the development of disciplines such as archaeology and anthropology. It became a tool for observation and comparison, enabling the recording of cultural characteristics and the classification of artefacts. The photographs of Eugène Atget preserve the memory of a vanished Paris, while those of August Sander document professions that have since disappeared. The documentary and archival value of photography—equally present in the work of Raymond Depardon and Walker Evans—will guide this tour.
© ATGET Eugène, Coiffeur, Avenue de l'Observatoire, Paris, 1926, aristotype.
Identities and Otherness: "Tell Me Who Haunts You, I Will Tell You Who You Are"
From Monday 14 December to Saturday 9 January
Faces that have become icons of the twentieth century punctuate the exhibition Remember Me. Yet, as this tour reveals, expressions and identities shift from one photograph to another: Richard Avedon's Marilyn is not the one Cindy Sherman seeks to recreate. Man Ray's Noire et blanche (1926), later reinterpreted by Edward Steichen, offers another example. It raises questions of cultural appropriation, before being playfully revisited by Annie Leibovitz and transformed by Zanele Muholi, who overturns the conventions of Orientalist painting.
© Man Ray, Noire et Blanche.1926,Tirage argentique, 20,6 × 27,5 cm (sans cadre) © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Adagp, Paris, 2026, Pinault Collection.