Dolores Marat

French photographer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench photographer
PlacesFrance
isPhotographer
Work fieldArts
Gender
Female
Birth26 October 1944, Paris, Grand Paris, France
Age80 years
Star signScorpio
The details

Biography

Marat in 2021

Dolorès Marat (born 1944) is a French photographer.

Life and work

Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assistant at L'Oréal magazine Votre Beauté, and a studio photographer, before finally working as an independent photographer from 1984. She began her personal work in the mid-1990s. She uses colour slide film and her prints are made using the Fresson process.

Publications

  • Éclipse. Paris: Contrejour, 1990.
  • Rives. Paris: Marval, 1995.
  • Carven : half a century of elegance, Dominique Paulvé. Paris: Gründ, 1995. ISBN 2-7000-2007-3.
  • Boulevard Maritime. With Frédéric H. Fajardie. Point du jour, 2000.
  • Labyrinthe. Point du jour and Dewi Lewis, 2001.
  • New-York USA. With Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Marval, 2002.
  • Illusion. With Marie Darrieussecq. Éditions Filigranes [fr], 2003.
  • Near Life Experience. Paris: Hors Commerce [fr], 2003. Curated by Angelin Preljocaj, edited and with text by Éric Reinhardt.
  • La mer by la tranquillité. Petits Matins, 2005. Journal by Jean-Luc Bitton, illustrated with photographs by Marat.
  • Paris, correspondances. Avignon, Pionnière, 2015. With an essay by Arlette Farge.
  • Palmyre et autres Orients. Avignon, Pionnière, 2016. With an essay by Dominique Janvier.
  • Mezzo voce. Paris: Fario, 2018 ISBN 9791091902472. With an essay by Lionel Bourg.
  • Lune rouge et autres animaux familiers Paris: Fario, 2021. ISBN 979-10-91902-74-8. With an essay by Vincent Pélissier.
  • Dolorès Marat. Photo Poche. Arles: Actes Sud, 2023. ISBN 978-2-330-17886-4. With an introduction by Éric Reinhardt.

Exhibitions

  • Dolorès Marat, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2003
  • Sirocco, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, May–June 2013
  • Festival des Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France, 2014
  • Chromatic Disruption, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2023
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