{"id":9487,"date":"2022-05-03T13:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.france.fi\/culture\/agnes-varda-my-first-life\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:58:46","slug":"agnes-varda-my-first-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/en\/culture\/agnes-varda-my-first-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Agn\u00e8s Varda \u2013 My First Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">\u00a9 Agn\u00e8s Varda Estate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Film director <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Agn\u00e8s Varda<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (1928\u20132019) is known for her works <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cl\u00e9o from 5 to 7<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (1962), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">One Sings, the Other Doesn&#8217;t<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (1977), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Vagabond<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (1985), and <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Faces, Places<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (2017). Varda was also a visual artist, and out of three creative lives, her life as a photographer is the least known.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Agn\u00e8s Varda became a photographer after moving to Paris in the late 1940s. Contact prints from portraits, including commissioned works and photos of friends, testify to her meticulous directing while taking pictures. Varda worked with a Rolleiflex and folding camera. Some of her favorite subjects came from her home neighborhood, the 14th arrondissement of Paris. There Varda captured the area\u2019s charmingly dilapidated streetscapes and its inhabitants.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Varda opened her first photography exhibition on June 1, 1954. The show was held in the courtyard of her home studio at, 86 rue Daguerre, an address that would soon to become mythical. Prints glued to wood panels were hung on the courtyard walls and shutters. Amongst the exhibition visitors were Varda&#8217;s friends and neighbors; such as artists including Alexander Calder, Hans Hartung, Andr\u00e9e Vilar, and Valentine Schlegel, along with the photographer Brassa\u00ef.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In 2014 Agn\u00e8s Varda and her daughter Rosalie rediscovered the silver gelatin prints from that debut courtyard exhibition. These prints will now be displayed in their original form at The Finnish Museum of Photography, accompanied by never-before-seen photographic plates and contact prints. The exhibition reveals a visionary, humorous, and sensitive photographer whose images foresee her long career as a filmmaker and artist.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi\/en\/exhibitions\/agnes-varda-my-first-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Read more<\/i><\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish Museum of Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Agn\u00e8s Varda \u2013 My First Life - 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