Magnum's Master of Color Photography: Harry Gruyaert

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Harry Gruyaert

【1941— 】

Belgian photographer

Magnum's Master of Color Photography: Harry Gruyaert

Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruart studied photography and filmmaking. Several films were shot for Flemish television in the early 1960s. By the end of the 1970s, he had traveled to the United States, India, Egypt, Japan and Morocco for photography. In the early 1970s, when he lived in London, he produced a series of colour television screenshots that later became part of the collection now the Centre Pompidou. Around the same time, he also filmed his hometown and produced two collections, Made in Belgium and Roots.

In 1982, he joined Magnum Pictures. Two editions of Rivages (Edges), published in 2003 and 2008, feature contrasting lights and colors. A retrospective of his work was held in Paris in 2015. Over the years, from Belgium, the "crossroads of Western Europe" to Morocco, the "Kingdom of Northwest Africa", from the "Holy Land of Buddhism" India to the "country of the pyramids" Egypt, Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert has recorded the subtle changes in the sense of light between the East and the West with the camera in his hand, thus showing people the strong contrast between light and shadow between the East and the West. His photographic works have been well received in many photography exhibitions around the world.

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