The work of artist duo F&D Cartier combines the talent and vision of sculptor Françoise and photographer Daniel Cartier. The two began working in collaboration in 1995 and began exhibiting as F&D Cartier in 1998. The exhibition Grand Tour Revisited created in 2014 features a body of work that transforms the traditional trip of Europe by juxtaposing nineteenth century black/white slides with contemporary color digital images of F&D Cartier’s own travels. Discovered by the Cartier’s in a market in Switzerland, the nineteenth century slides by photographer Johannes Ganz depict the original Grand Tour in Italy.
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An educational rite of passage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries traditionally reserved for upper class European and American young men of m...
The work of artist duo F&D Cartier combines the talent and vision of sculptor Francoise and photographer Daniel Cartier. The two began working in collaboration in 1995 and began exhibiting as F&D Cartier in 1998. The exhibition Roses features a body of photograms, produced with a “camera-less” photographic process through which F&D Cartier created a body of images by placing contemporary objects onto photographic light sensitive paper and exposing the set up in natural light. The vintage process yields a photographic record of the chemical process, the kind of image evocative of an X-ray. With the rise of digital photography in Contemporary art and media, photographic fundamentalism and an interest in returning back to the quintessence of photography and its alternative processes has surged throug...