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Isabelle Muñoz exhibit

18 juillet 1993
02m 16s
Ref. 00207

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Summary :

Isabelle Muñoz presents her photographs on the theme of dancing in an exhibit entitled Zoom on the Body which takes place at the Beaux Art school in Nîmes. In this context, the artist's work and photo development techniques are presented. The photographer briefly talks about her relationship with the body and with sensuality.

Media type :
Vidéo
Broadcast date :
18 juillet 1993
Source :
A2 (Collection: JA2 Dernière )
Personnalité(s) :
Jean-Jacques Dufour / Isabelle Muñoz
Themes :
Places :

Context

Born in Barcelona in 1951, Isabel Muñoz took an interest in photography at a very young age. Starting in Madrid, her studies soon took her to New York where she developed her skills in different photographic techniques, but it was mainly platinum and albumen printing that became her speciality.

From native Ethiopian warriors to Spanish tango and flamenco dancers, she passionately explored the world of bodies in movement (dances, wrestling, martial arts, bullfighting) and restructured, dressed up or scarred bodies. She captured shapes, gestures and often concentrated on a detail (hands, foot, lips...), she brought out sensuality, strength and beauty.

Since 1986, the date of her first presentation titled Toques in Madrid, she hasn't stopped exhibiting the photos that she has taken throughout her numerous voyages around the world. She he is a member of the VU agency.

Emmanuel Zbinden

Transcription

Journalist
Flamenco, tango, Oriental dances, anyways... Dancing is the theme of a photograph exhibit that Isabelle Munoz organisd in Nîmes. Zoom on the body, especially the hands and the feet. Jean-Jacques Dufour and Bernard Conord loved it.
Jean-Jacques Dufour
A Spanish photographer from Barcelona, Isabelle Munoz loves the body's language. And it apparently isn't without reason that she became a big fan of torrid dances such as the tango or the flamenco. For her, playing with the hands doesn't mean playing dirty.
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Isabelle Munoz
I like touching. So for me, the skin is very important. The sensuality of the bodies, the geometric shapes, and, well, lots of things.
Jean-Jacques Dufour
Isabelle's sensuality drives her to develop her own pictures, developing by plate, like in the old days.
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Christian Caujolle
She spent 2 years in the United States learning this technique which is a XIXth century technique and which is a very complex technique since you prepare the paper yourself and you take paper, Canson paper, for example, and you go over it with a boiled brush, in which it was boiled with platinum salts, and then, as in the XIXth century, you place your negative on the paper, shine light on it and the magic of photography takes over, meaning that, afterwards, you have a fixed image that's developed.
Jean-Jacques Dufour
Fixed, set, but nevertheless full of rhythm and movement.
Christian Caujolle
We see lots of hands and lots of feet.
Isabelle Munoz
It's because, look at the tango, which is, as I told you, it's a dance that you dance from below the belt, so it's the feet and the hands that are the most important. In any case, I have a special preference for feet and for hands.
Jean-Jacques Dufour
Really?
Isabelle Munoz
Yes. I like feet and hands.
Jean-Jacques Dufour
An incentive to interlace, Isabelle Munoz's pictures are being exhibited at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes until 31 July.
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