Dolorès Marat Explained

Dolorès Marat (born 1944)^[1] is a French photographer.

Life and work

Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assistant at L'Oréal magazine Votre Beauté, and a studio photographer, before finally working as an independent photographer from 1984.^{[2] [3]} She began her personal work in the mid-1990s. She uses colour slide film and her prints are made using the Fresson process.^[4]

Publications

• Éclipse. Paris: Contrejour, 1990.
• Rives. Paris: Marval, 1995.
• Carven : half a century of elegance, Dominique Paulvé. Paris: Gründ, 1995. .
• Boulevard Maritime. With Frédéric H. Fajardie. Point du jour, 2000.
• Labyrinthe. Point du jour and Dewi Lewis, 2001.
• New-York USA. With Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Marval, 2002.
• Illusion. With Marie Darrieussecq., 2003.
• Near Life Experience. Paris:, 2003. Curated by Angelin Preljocaj, edited and with text by Éric Reinhardt.
• La mer by la tranquillité. Petits Matins, 2005. Journal by Jean-Luc Bitton, illustrated with photographs by Marat.
• Paris, correspondances. Avignon, Pionnière, 2015. With an essay by Arlette Farge.^[1]
• Palmyre et autres Orients. Avignon, Pionnière, 2016. With an essay by Dominique Janvier.
• Mezzo voce. Paris: Fario, 2018 . With an essay by Lionel Bourg.
• Lune rouge et autres animaux familiers Paris: Fario, 2021. . With an essay by Vincent Pélissier.
• Dolorès Marat. Photo Poche. Arles: Actes Sud, 2023. . With an introduction by Éric Reinhardt.

Exhibitions

• Dolorès Marat, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2003^[5]
• Sirocco, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, May–June 2013^[6]
• Festival des Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France, 2014^[7]
• Chromatic Disruption, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2023^[4]

External links

• Film about Morat by Thomas Goupille (70 mins)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dolorès Marat dans le métro. Dominique. Poiret. Libération.
2. Web site: Dolorès Marat, une photographe sur le fil de l'énigme. August 12, 2001. Le Monde.
3. Web site: BJP. 2023-09-17. Zoom: Dolores Marat displays at Arles' Flair Galerie - 1854 Photography. British Journal of Photography.
4. Web site: Tangled up in blues: dreamlike colours – in pictures. Mee-Lai. Stone. August 2, 2023. The Guardian.
5. Web site: Dolorès Marat. Alfred. Hickling. April 7, 2003. The Guardian.
6. Web site: 2023-09-15. Dolorès Marat "Sirocco". www.cnap.fr.
7. Web site: Dolorès Marat, le trouble au plus près. Dominique. Poiret. Libération.