REN É MALT Ê TE

Photographer - poet

First Monograph dedicated to the photographer René Maltête (1930-2000) 300 images to (re)discover a true poet of photography

In the vein of the great humanist photographers, René Maltête created, from the 1950s to the 1970s, a precious photographic work. Traveling through France during the paid vacations, he drew a portrait of a country with a thousand facets, oscillating between fixed traditions and social progress. Through his images, he shares his nostalgic and tender view of his contemporaries. A mischievous troublemaker, he also illustrates himself in a humorous photography, staged, which recalls the world of Jacques Tati with whom he once worked.

As an exhibition curator specializing in photography, Audrey Hoareaud began her career at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, in one of the most prestigious public collections in Europe. In 2016, she became independent to produce and lead photographic and retrospective projects of great diversity (Stephen Shames, Isabel Muñoz, Jacques Pugin, Henri Dauman...). In 2007, she contributed to the launching of the Lianzhou Museum of Photography, the first public photography museum in China. At Centquatre, she was in charge of the artistic direction of the 2019 and 2020 editions of Circulation(s), a photography festival designed to promote emerging European photography in Paris. She is currently in charge of the archive of Swiss artist Peter Knapp and the artistic director of the only fair dedicated to photographic photography in Switzerland, Photo Basel. His anarchist profile, sixty-eight years old, marks the work of a visceral commitment that is as much about early environmental considerations for the time as it is about a true fascination for the worker and agricultural worlds. It was time to bring to life the autopist archive of René Maltête, a poet-photographer, too well known to the general public, as a witness to an era and its changes.