PhotoSaintGermain – Denise Colomb with the MPP

Promenade des berges de la Seine André Gorz 75007

You arrive not knowing what you will find. At first, you do not know how the painter will behave. But you arrive completely emptied, completely available. Without that, it doesn’t work. No will to preform: let things happen. Denise Colomb, film by Anne Schaeffer, 1990. From Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Denise Colomb brings back dozens of portraits of painters and sculptors, captured in the intimate setting of their post-war studios until the late 70s. Although she began photography in 1935, in Indochina, she received her first commission in 1947, …