SELECTED WRITINGS

Born in New York and now based in Paris, photographer Richard Kalvar has spent more than 50 years observing humanity through the lens of his camera photo. With Selected Writings, he shifts his gaze from faces to different ways of people expressing themselves in writing: graffiti, signs, t-shirts, banners, tombstones and other public inscriptions. This corpus in black and white, which mixes irony and tenderness, runs through his entire career, from the end from the 1960s to today, and covers different locations in the Western world, especially in Paris, New York and London. From the strange to the surprising in passing through the frankly funny, it gives a resolutely subjective overview of the public use of writing.