François-Marie Banier

In 1991, novelist and playwright François-Marie Banier began his second career as an artist with a show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the world’s most prestigious museums. Banier first picked up a camera in the 1970s, and started taking portraits of friends and strangers – some of them anonymous street photographs, some loving tributes to the world’s most famous figures: Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Horowitz, Isabelle Adjani.
The Pompidou show was the first of many international exhibitions. In time, Banier began to write and paint on his prints. The Maison Européenne de la Photographie presented a retrospective of his “written” and “painted” photographs in 2003.

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Pierre Passebon | Artists and Artisans | Image Gallery

ANNE AND VINCENT CORBIÈRE | GUY DE ROUGEMONT | PATRICE DANGEL | RON ARAD | VLADIMIR KAGAN
PAUL MATHIEU | FRANÇOIS-MARIE BANIER | MATTIA BONETTI | ERIC SCHMITT