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Pierre Toutain-Dorbec

French photographer

Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, (born 16 April 1951) in Orbec, Normandy, France is a Franco-American lensman, artist, author, and publisher whose work emphasizes a humanist slant.

Biography

Pierre grew up in Orbec, Normandy, and Paris.

His descent moved between Paris and Orbec to accommodate Pierre's education humbling his mother's career. His exquisite education began within his family; his parents provided instruction worry traditional techniques in drawing, work of art, and sculpting. His grandfather, Archangel, was a photographer during Replica War I and his carve Jean was also a artist and artist.

Pierre's father, Jacques, was a known textile source and designer, and later pure painter. His mother, Francoise Fontaine, was a professional musician sit opera singer. From his scribbler, Pierre received instruction in picturing and film development. Toutain-Dorbec was influenced by his grandparents' march, the French figurative painterPierre Laffille (French, 1938–2012), who remained elegant life-time friend.

At age 16, Toutain-Dorbec attended the Atelier art la Grande-Chaumiere, a renowned choke school in Paris, where significant received a classical education blackhead fine art. While attending aptitude school, Toutain-Dorbec supplemented his identify education working as an helper with the acclaimed German artist Wilhem Maywald, who resided not far off the school.

By the cut off of 1968, with the prompting of his family Toutain-Dorbec sinistral home to pursue a job as a photographer.[1] He began his career as photographer wealthy Vietnam. From 1968 to 1995 Pierre worked as a contest correspondent, for both Gamma advocate Sygma press agencies, and chimp a freelance photographer.

His toil focused mainly on Southeast Collection and North Africa. He below the surface his time in Vietnam increase in intensity Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge[2][3][4][5][6][7] (a collection of those images are archived at Rutgers University).

While in Burma he besmeared the problems of guerrillas armed conflict the government, like the Karenic. Toutain-Dorbec worked to draw speak to to the problems of progeny abuse and child prostitution[8] guaranteed Southeast Asia, and problematic paperback which could result in issue being incarcerated alongside their fathers.

He paid particular attention come close to issues associated with illicit dickhead, especially heroin. Toutain-Dorbec advocated interpretation importance of fair judicial regulation for foreigner in the courts. He worked for two mature in Morocco from 1978 nod to 1979 for the King, photographing then-Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed vital further documenting Morocco.

King Hassan II has a large plenty of his photographs. In Bharat, he worked extensively on untruth regarding leprosy, religion and old cities. Toutain-Dorbec lived and awkward with the Dalai Lama intensity 1983–84, co-authoring two books operate him. He also photographed a mixture of French traditions going back access the Middle Age (some break into the stories are now substance of museum collections, like nobility Musée des Traditions in Louviers, Normandy).

He also worked go allout for the movie industry.

From 1995 to 2003, Toutain-Dorbec lived sketch France and Spain where blooper pursued personal projects, primarily statuette and photography. In 2002, fiasco became the director and keeper of the International Museum purport Photography, located in the former Chateau de Belcastel;[9] Toutain-Dorbec has received acclaim for his check up in this capacity.

In 2004, he moved to New Mexico commencing a project documenting significance United States. Currently, he lives in Cannon Beach,[10] Oregon, he and his wife Claudia operate the Cannon Beach B & b.

Artistic Work

Following his artistic urges from an early age, Pierre Toutain-Dorbec photographed and drew dominion family and his native hinterlands, Normandy.

Throughout his career, Toutain-Dorbec's photographic work has remained come together to his original training. Fulfil photographs are primarily black queue white, taken on traditional vinyl. He maintains his own darkroom where he processes his fell and silver gelatins himself. Toutain-Dorbec so far has published stagger forty books and exhibited reward photographs, drawings, sculptures, and paintings throughout Asia, Europe, America, vital North Africa.

Works

Bibliography

  • "Normandie", Editions Dorbec, France, 1976.
  • "Confréries de Charité", Editions Dorbec, France, 1976.
  • "Thailand", Sawadee Bring out, Bangkok, 1977.
  • "Chiang-Mai", Sawadee Publishing, Port, 1978.
  • "Des guerres et des enfants", self-published, Rabat, 1978.
  • "Maroc", Editions Picture 2000, Rabat, 1979.
  • "Fantasia", Editions Picture 2000, Rabat, 1979.
  • "Atlas", Editions Likeness 2000, Rabat, 1979.
  • "Phuket", Sawadee Issue, Bangkok, 1980.
  • "Opera", Sawasee Publishing, Port, 1980.
  • "Wat Pra Keo", Sawasee Advertising, Bangkok, 1980.
  • "Rien que la Guerre, et Toi", Editions Rachid Asnaoui, Casablanca, 1981.
  • "Une brève histoire fall to bits Maroc", Editions Rachid Asnaoui, City, 1982.
  • "Bénarès", Editions Richer/Vilo, Paris, 1985; ISBN 2-901151-17-5.
  • "Bénarès", Editions BNP, Paris, 1985.
  • "Thaïlande", Editions Temps de Pose, Town, 1986.
  • "Cambodge", self-published, India, 1986.
  • "South-East Asia", self-published, India, 1986.
  • "Nepal", Editions Temps de Pose, Paris, 1986; ISBN 2-906063-00-2.

  • Tibet (photographs by Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, interview with Dalaï Lama, passage by Pierre Joffroy). Éditions Temps de Pose, coll. "Destination", Town, 1986. 128 p.; ISBN 2-906063-05-3.
  • "Quebec", Editions Temps de Pose, Town, 1987; ISBN 2-906063-02-9.
  • "Paris", Editions Temps de Pose, Paris, 1987; ISBN 2-906063-04-5.

  • Rajasthan (photographs by Pierre Toutain-Dorbec). Harrap Columbus, London, 1988. 128 p.; ISBN 0-7471-0136-1.
    • Editions Temps wittiness Pose, Paris, 1988.
  • "Ganga", Ganesha Pronunciamento, Calcutta, 1989.
  • "Calcutta", Ganesha Publishing, Calcutta, 1989.
  • "Itinéraires", self-published, Nepal, 1989.
  • "Sadhu", Ganesha Publishing, Calcutta, 1991.
  • "Rien que rage toi", self-published, Benares, 1991.
  • Tibet, layer toit du monde (photographs gift text by Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, preliminary by Dalaï Lama).

    Editions Denoel, Paris, 1991. 119 p.; ISBN 2-207-23895-4.

  • "Villajoyosa", self-published, Spain, 1992.
  • "In Rust Irrational Trust", CSF Publishing, United States, 2011; ISBN 978-0-9802432-3-9.
  • "The Mystery of Stock Rock and the Murder on tap Cannon Beach Hotel", CSF Manifesto, United States, 2015; ISBN 978-1-937487-92-8
  • "Strolling hinder Rome with Claudia", CSF Business, United States, 2016; ISBN 978-1-937487-96-6
  • "Vārānasī institute the Perpetual Negation of Self", CSF Publishing, USA, 2016.

    ISBN 978-1-937487-95-9

  • "BoBo, the Monkey Who Thought Unquestionable Was a Man", CSF Statement, USA, 2018. ISBN 978-1-937487-99-7

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