Le Bal (arts centre)

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  • 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris
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Diane Dufour
Website en.le-bal.com

Le Bal is an independent arts centre in Paris. [1] It focuses on documentary photography, video, cinema and new media through exhibitions, production, book publishing, talks and debates.

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Le Bal has around 350 m² of exhibition space divided across two floors; a bookshop, Le Bal Books; [2] and café, Le Bal Café. [3] [4] It is located off Place de Clichy at 6 Impasse de la Défense, 18th arrondissement, 75018, Paris. It opened in September 2010. Its director is Diane Dufour (who was European Director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2006). [5]

Details

The building is a former 1930s dance hall called Chez Isis.

Le Bal co-publishes two or three books each year, including L’Anti-collection, a limited-edition artist’s book which it jointly publishes with the Centre national des arts plastiques, and Les Carnets du Bal. [6]

Le Bal’s educational platform, La Fabrique du Regard, has run programmes since 2008 for young people aged 8–18, especially from disadvantaged areas of Paris and its suburbs, to critically look at images. [7] [8]

Le Bal Books is run by Sébastian Hau.

Le Bal Café is operated by Alice Quillet, Anna Trattles and Anselme Blayney. [4] [9] [10] It serves a French take on traditional British cuisine.

Since 2010 Le Bal has been involved with the annual Prix des Ecoles d’Art SFR Jeunes Talents / Le Bal (The SFR / Le Bal award for young photography with ADAGP). [n 1] It is a competition open to art school students and former students who graduated less than three years before entering. It carries a 5000 Euro prize intended to support the winner for two years in making or completing a documentary photography project. [11] [12]

Antoine D'Agata's Anticorps (2013), a catalogue published by Le Bal and Éditions Xavier Barral for his retrospective at Le Bal, won the Rencontres d'Arles Author’s Book Award in 2013. [13] In 2015, the book Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015) won the Photography Catalogue of the Year award in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. [14] [15]

Exhibitions

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ ADAGP is Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques; SFR is Société française du radiotéléphone
  2. ↑ PMU, Pari mutuel urbain, is the French state-controlled betting system.

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  6. ↑ "Les Carnets Du Bal". Le Bal. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
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  14. ↑ "Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards". Aperture Foundation. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
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