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As the invention of photography celebrates its bicentenary, Pinault Collection presents a major group exhibition featuring around 700 works by more than 70 artists at the Bourse de Commerce. Entitled “Remember Me”, in reference to a work by Barbara Kruger, who is also presenting an installation in the museum’s Rotunda and display cases this autumn, the exhibition pays tribute to the photographic medium. Through masterpieces and icons from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition is like a fugue. Constructed as a free-ranging journey without any chronology, it elicits unexpected correspondences and dialogues between genres and eras to offer viewers an open, sensorially driven experience of the history of photography. From historical photographs to contemporary images, from Gustave Le Gray to Cindy Sherman, and from Dorothea Lange to Wolfgang Tillmans, by way of Man Ray and Louise Lawler, the Pinault Collection embraces the entire history of the photographic medium. It also showcases the breadth of its aesthetics and techniques. Presenting it in its entirety on the occasion of the bicentenary of the invention of photography feels especially relevant. And, through a selection of approximately seven hundred works, this is precisely what the exhibition "Remember Me" does, for the first time ever. "Among those objects that have a particular relationship with memory, photography today occupies a very special place. In 1827, this process was first praised for its ability to reproduce reality with an unprecedented degree of accuracy, but it soon came to provide the best possible material representations of mnemonic images. In 1859, Charles Baudelaire came to recognise this capacity to hold memory. To stop a moment in time, to immortalise a face, to allow the inescapably ephemeral nature of existence to live on —this is the essence of photography. It is about not forgetting, making the gaps in our memories disappear, reviving and sustaining our history, and thus defying death. While an impression is by its very nature evanescent, a photograph instead endures. Like a relic made of paper, a photograph both celebrates the present and contemplates what was and no longer is." — Matthieu Humery, Advisor for Photography, Pinault Collection With: Laure Albin Guillot / Manuel Alvarez Bravo / Eugène Atget / Richard Avedon / Edmond Bacot / Cecil Beaton / Werner Bischof / Erwin Blumenfeld / Constantin Brancusi / Steffi Brandl / Claude Cahun / Julia Margaret Cameron / George Frederic Cannons / Robert Capa / Henri Cartier-Bresson / Maurizio Cattelan / Coleman Collins / Robert Cumming / Imogen Cunningham / Raymond Depardon / Máté Dobokay / Robert Doisneau / František Drtikol / Pierre Dubreuil / Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne / John Edmonds / El Lissitzky / Walker Evans / Roger Fenton / Jaromír Funke / Maurice Goldberg / Nan Goldin / Horst P. Horst / Peter Hujar / Constantin Joffé / André Kertész / Rudolf Koppitz / Tarrah Krajnak / Barbara Kruger / Germaine Krull / Dorothea Lange / Louise Lawler / Gustave Le Gray / Annie Leibovitz / Zoe Leonard / Sherrie Levine / Dora Maar / Man Ray / Boris Mikhaïlov / Lee Miller / Tyler Mitchell / Zanele Muholi / Ugo Mulas / Youssef Nabil / Lusha Nelson / Helmut Newton / Meret Oppenheim / Paul Outerbridge / Irving Penn / Eileen Quinlan / Wladimir Rehbinder / Jack Robinson / Aleksandr Rodchenko / August Sander / Francesco Scavullo / Sherril Schell / Karl Schenker / Ernst Schneider / Cindy Sherman / Dayanita Singh / Edward Steichen / Alfred Stieglitz / Paul Strand / Paul Stone Raymor / Hiroshi Sugimoto / Wolfgang Tillmans / Deborah Turbeville / Danh Võ / Weegee / Edward Weston / Francesca Woodman. Curated by: Matthieu Humery, Advisor for Photography, Pinault Collection & Lola Regard, Projects Officer.