Charlotte Perriand Et La Photographie : L'oeil En Éventail

Exhibition at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 7 April - 18 September 2011

During the 1930s, in parallel with her activities as an architect, designer, urban planner and activist, photography played an important role in her work. The photographic adventure began in 1927 and ended in Japan in 1940. It unfolded throughout the pioneering period, when modernity was developing, and ended with the hope of a better world destroyed by the Second World War.

This exhibition catalogue presents this little-known part of Charlotte Perriand's work, which is part of the vast avant-garde movement in which painters, architects and photographers, sometimes confused, worked side by side in a community of spirit, where each expression was enriched by the other's gaze.