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In 2016, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain presented the first European retrospective devoted to Fernell Franco, a major yet little-known figure in Colombian photography. Bringing together over 140 of the artist's photographs from 10 different series produced between 1970 and 1996, the exhibition highlights the importance of Fernell Franco's work within the rich artistic scene emerging in the early 1970s.
Fernell Franco (1942–2006) began his career in Cali as a photojournalist before specializing in advertising and fashion photography. Starting in the 1970s, he produced a personal body of work dedicated to the precariousness and urban contrasts of the city of Cali. Whether in color or black and white, featuring old, dilapidated mansions, billiard halls, or sex workers, his melancholic photographs draw inspiration from Italian neorealism and film noir. A pioneering and experimental artist, Fernell Franco often alters his prints by cropping them or enhancing them with colored pencils or an airbrush, thereby transcending the limits of documentary photography to create metaphorical and quasi-pictorial works.
With over 190 illustrations and texts by Oscar Muñoz and curator María Wills Londoño, as well as an illustrated biography of the artist, the exhibition catalog offers a glimpse into Fernell Franco’s unique and sensitive body of work.
Co-publication Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain + Éditions Toluca, 2016
27.5 cm 22 cm, 296 pages, like new
ISBN 978-2-9522442-7-5
In 2016, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain presented the first European retrospective devoted to Fernell Franco, a major yet little-known figure in Colombian photography. Bringing together over 140 of the artist's photographs from 10 different series produced between 1970 and 1996, the exhibition highlights the importance of Fernell Franco's work within the rich artistic scene emerging in the early 1970s.
Fernell Franco (1942–2006) began his career in Cali as a photojournalist before specializing in advertising and fashion photography. Starting in the 1970s, he produced a personal body of work dedicated to the precariousness and urban contrasts of the city of Cali. Whether in color or black and white, featuring old, dilapidated mansions, billiard halls, or sex workers, his melancholic photographs draw inspiration from Italian neorealism and film noir. A pioneering and experimental artist, Fernell Franco often alters his prints by cropping them or enhancing them with colored pencils or an airbrush, thereby transcending the limits of documentary photography to create metaphorical and quasi-pictorial works.
With over 190 illustrations and texts by Oscar Muñoz and curator María Wills Londoño, as well as an illustrated biography of the artist, the exhibition catalog offers a glimpse into Fernell Franco’s unique and sensitive body of work.
Co-publication Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain + Éditions Toluca, 2016
27.5 cm 22 cm, 296 pages, like new
ISBN 978-2-9522442-7-5
