{"id":142,"date":"2007-11-26T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=142"},"modified":"2007-11-26T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:22:12","slug":"the-picture-lady-martine-barrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"The Picture Lady – Martine Barrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martine Barrat<\/strong>‘s show \u0093Harlem In My Heart\u0094 is at the Maison Europ\u00e9enne de la Photographie<\/em> in Paris until January 6th, 2008, and I spent quite a while looking at her warm record of her over 30 years in Harlem and the many friends she has photographed.<\/p>\n

You can see some of the best of her pictures at Contact Press<\/a> and more of her work at her own web site<\/em><\/a>, which suffers from a rather odd flash interface (the kind of thing fortunately that seems very dated now, but is worth persisting with.<\/p>\n

As well as her work from Harlem, there are also a number of other galleries on her web site, though I got too annoyed with the site to look at them all. There are some nice black and white images from the Goutte d’Or<\/em> (Paris Voice<\/a> describes it as “a tiny patch of Africa transported to Paris<\/em>“) at the eastern edge of the 18e.<\/p>\n

Barrat was born in Algeria but grew up in Paris. She moved to New York in 1968, at first to co-ordinate a theatre workshop working with a jazz group, later becoming a photographer and film-maker. One of her early films was on youth gangs in the South Bronx, and was shown at the Whitney Musuem<\/em> in New York as a part of the exhibition with her still photos, “You Do the Crime, You Do the Time<\/em>“, later winning a prize for best documentary in Milan.<\/p>\n

She became well-known as “the Picture Lady” for the images she took around Harlem in the 1970s and later. Her first book, on young boxers, ‘Do or Die<\/em>‘ (1993) had an introduction by Gordon Parks and a foreward by Martin Scorcese.<\/p>\n

You can read a more detailed resume on her web site, in English <\/a>or French.<\/p>\n

It is certainly a body of work that shows her heart is in Harlem and warms the heart of the viewer. It’s work that comes from being very much a part of the community she is photographing, and includes some displays of pictures pasted up like those that she made on the walls of a Harlem community centre.<\/p>\n

Peter Marshall<\/em>
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