Untitled (from the series Les Personnages)
100 x 130 cm. 1991/1995

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Untitled (from the series Les Paysages)
80 x 100 cm. 1994/1995

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Untitled (from the series Les Figures)
170 x 210 cm. 1995/1996

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Untitled (from the series Les Paysages)
100 x 130 cm. 1995/1996

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Untitled (from the series Les Personnages)
100 x 130 cm. 1991/1995

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Untitled (from the series Les Façades)
100 x 130 cm. 2001/2002

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Untitled (from the series Les Personnages)
100 x 130 cm. 1999/2001

all images courtesy of the artist

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Six things you need to know about VALÉRIE JOUVE:

1. she studied ethnology at the University of Lyon/Bron
2. before turning her attention to photography at the end of the 1980s
3. she graduated from the National School for Photography in Arles, France, in 1990,
4. since then she has built up a unique collection of photographic works on human presence in the city: What interests me above all else is the question of the handling of space…Above all, it’s a matter of understanding how the figure confers presence on its surroundings. Here architecture is presented as the emblematic form of space that man creates for himself in order to exist. – VALÉRIE JOUVE in conversation with MICHEL POIVERT (1998)
5. from 2003 she has become increasingly involved in film projects
6. VALÉRIE JOUVE lives and works in Paris

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found via la Chronique Curiostié of JOËL RIFF