The Store
©Communication Ville de Mougins, 2021
The Center wishes to support artistic creation and not play the card of overconsumption by avoiding the pitfall of gadgets and by favoring the prism of design. The ambition is to address a large public, both in terms of generation and social background, offering a wide range of prices.
The store is open during the exhibition periods :
April – September : from 11 am to 7 pm. Closed on Tuesdays
October – March : from 1 pm to 6 pm. Closed of Mondays and Tuesdays
Find us at 43, rue de l’église 06250 Mougins.
+33 (0)4 22 21 52 12
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© Le Petit Didier, 2021
Cahiers #1
« 1001 » : Isabel Muñoz
This first edition of Cahiers looks back at the inaugural exhibition of the Mougins Center of photography, devoted to the Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz and her works produced during numerous trips to Japan.
Authors: Yasmine Chemali, François Cheval, Stéphane du Mesnildot, Yuta Yagishita, Pascal Bagot, Emil Pacha Valencia.
Nb of pages: 176
Price: 29€
© Le Petit Didier, 2021
Cahiers #2
« L’amour toujours : » Jenny Rova + Natasha Caruana
Photographers are not immune to emotional experience! Dedicated to the exhibition “Love, Eternally”, the second edition of Cahiers is dedicated to two female artists Jenny Rova and Natasha Caruana. Their works result from personal stories told through familiar experiences.
Authors: François Cheval, Laurence Pourchez, Jenny Rova, Natasha Caruana, Dr. Chris Hoff, Christophe Perrin, Yasmine Chemali.
Nb of pages: 192
Price: 29€
© Le Petit Didier, 2022
Cahiers #3
« La clairvoyance du hasard » : Li Lang + Yuki Onodera
With this third number, the Cahiers becomes a playground for artistic and scientific experimentations. Within the pages, relations bewteen order and chaos and the opposition between chance and derminism are examined.
Authors: François Cheval, András Páldi, Jean Daunizeau, Takayo Iida, Yasmine Chemali, Li Lang and Yuki Onodera.
Nb of pages: 176
Price: 29€
© Le Petit Didier, 2022
Cahiers #4
« Every day is Saturday : portraits anglais » Tom Wood
Tom Wood or Photie Man photographs everyday life, roaming the streets of his hometown. He paints the portrait of Liverpool and its people, caught on the spot on the top deck of a bus, on the ferry, in the markets or at a nightclub. Tom Wood’s photographs are not edited, not cropped. What is available to see is there, before us. A compulsive gesture, an incisive gaze, the peril of the contact sheet that can tell a story or just as easily miss it. So, we should be as generous as the artist who gives all that he can. Without ulterior motives, Cahiers #4 mix up the gazes and undertake a collective reading of this Liverpudlian universe.
Authors: Yasmine Chemali, François Cheval, David Peace, John Peel, Alexis Tadié, Leïla Vignal.
Nb of pages: 192
Price: 29€
© Le Petit Didier, 2022
Cahiers #5
« Ce qui nous arrive ici, en plein visage » Catherine De Clippel + Marie Baronnet
A barrier stands at the border between the United States and Mexico, a sinister defensive wall known to all. It alone embodies all walls, all refusals of the other. Elsewhere, in Fon and Ewhe countries, other markers stand in the form of earth sculptures posed directly on the ground. Protuberances that separate the living from the spirits. Between Marie Baronnet’s photographs, taken at the Mexican border, and those of Catherine De Clippel, taken in West Africa, a surprising relationship emerges. Both capture what happens between that which closes and that which opens, a beyond that sparks our (very human) curiosity. We must always understand what is hidden, what is on the other side.
Authors: François Cheval, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Jérôme Esnouf
Nb of pages: 192
Price: 29€
© Le Petit Didier, 2023
Cahiers #6
The Cahiers #6 of the Mougins Center of Photography are akin to the essence of Harold Feinstein – multifaceted and manifold. They bring together a scholarly contribution that delves into the legacy of the New York Photo League, compelling writings on the Jazz Loft, the photographer’s collaborations with iconic jazz labels like Blue Note and Signal, as well as his relationship with W. Eugene Smith (Pittsburgh Project). Additionally, there is a text on Coney Island, an enduring leitmotiv of the seventh art since the early 20th century, with its amusement park and nocturnal luminosity. The Cahiers #6 also encompass Harold Feinstein’s involvement as a GI in the Korean War, allowing us to witness the dedication of the photographer, educator and mentor, all while harmonizing with the melodies of Duke Jordan, Lee Morgan and Gigi Gryce.
Authors : François Cheval, Alexis Tadié, Ya’ara Gil-Glazer, Yasmine Chemali
Nb of pages: 192
Price: 29€
© Le Petit Didier, 2023
Cahiers #7
The Cahiers #7 of the Mougins Center of Photography are an ode to light. “Point sublime” and “Nous irons jusqu’au soleil” or when two photographers use the energy of rays to send us signals. Jessica Backhaus’s carefully selected, coloured papers respond to Anna Niskanen’s cyanotypes tinted with essences and natural pigments found there. This opens the door to a pictorialist heritage and a reflection on time, the time of contemplation.
Authors: François Cheval, András Páldi, Anna Niskanen
Nb of pages: 144
Price: 29€
The production of photography books is particularly rich and diversified in France.
France PhotoBook aims to promote and safeguard a rich though fragile ecosystem, by preserving a unique expertise and encouraging the consideration of a sector that has become essential in the field of contemporary photographic creation.
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The Other End of the Rainbow
Kourtney Roy
For thirty years, Michel Lepetitdidier has been discreetly producing a rich, free and demanding body of work under the name “Le Petit Didier”. The expressiveness of his compositions, through the use of handwriting, painting and drawing, is accompanied by impeccable precision in the graphic and typographic constructions. His total commitment, unwavering standards and great discretion make him, without doubt, the most (un)known French graphic designer!
This monograph, the first to be devoted to the work of Le Petit Didier, aims not only to give an account of his impressive graphic work, but also to question the practice of graphic design today.
The book is divided into three parts to explore these thirty years of practice. The first gives an account of the designer’s research work, using numerous documents – drawings, annotations, correspondence and compositions. The second part is led by Vanina Pinter, an art historian and teacher of graphic design theory. Her analysis is informed by her dialogue with Michel Lepetitdidier and several of his collaborators. The third part presents a chronological selection of Michel Lepetitdidier’s work, designed between 1989 and 2021.
This book is an invitation to meet a man committed to designing poetic, sensitive and useful forms, constantly striving for quality and meaning. It presents an exemplary body of work that bears witness to the importance and power of graphic design.
Text: François Cheval, Gladys Radek, Kourtney Roy
Graphic design: Michel Lepetitdidier
Edition: André Frère éditions
Number of pages: 432. French and english
Price: 65€
About the exhibition “Nous irons jusqu’au soleil”
Cut Outs
The pictures in Jessica Backhaus’ new series cut outs are created by using the simplest means and they reduce photography to its basic elements: light and shadow, shape and color. In her last publication A Trilogy (Kehrer, 2017), Jessica Backhaus has taken a path into abstraction, which is consistently continued here – with very analog, photographic methods. Cut out transparent paper reacts to the heat of intense sunlight, deforms, rises, and casts shadows. The photographer who arranged and staged these compositions becomes an astonished observer of events on which she has only limited influence, the documentarist of a visual experimental arrangement, a poetic choreography of intense colors in the sunlight.
Authors: Jessica Backhaus, Katharina Scriba
Edition: Kehrer Verlag
Number of pages: 128
Price: 98 €
A trilogy
Jessica Backhaus embarks on her work with an obvious relish in experimentation. The photo artist draws inspiration from the simplicity of everyday things, from unassuming scenes and silence. The artist’s new trilogy brings together three series of approximately 40 works each. The first series, Beyond Blue, is devoted completely to colorful threads, staged against colored backgrounds. They seem to lead a life of their own, tracing the fall of light in the space and forming variously shaped outlines. The viewer feels compelled to linger in this radical reduction, trying to unravel the entanglement of the seemingly unspectacular with the resulting aura of contemplation. In Shifting Clouds, Backhaus considers and documents this very transition – a reality that lies in between things. The second series shows fragments and visions that are poised on the verge of becoming, caught in limbo: reflections, haptically appealing surfaces, shapes imaginatively metamorphosing, upbeat tones, intensely colored sensations. In the third series, New Horizon, the artist presents free-flowing and persuasive poetic impressions. The compositions captivate with their variety and puzzle-like elements. Backhaus is breaking new ground in photography, incorporating components of mixed media, painting, and collage that expand and deepen these abstractions.
Authors: Jessica Backhaus, Rémi Coignet, Jean Dykstra, Matthias Harder
Edition: Kehrer Verlag
Number of pages: 168
Price: 44 €
© Kehrer Verlag
Plein Soleil
Soon available
The colorful studies of form and light in Plein Soleil by Jessica Backhaus are the logical continuation of a previous project, the Cut Outs from 2021. Powerful, direct sunlight hits colored, transparent paper and using a complex visual language, the photographer documents how the paper reacts to the intense heat, deforms, bends and creates hard shadows. The images in Plein Soleil are even more strict and uncompromising than those in the previous project. With Plein Soleil, Jessica Backhaus explores the photographic possibilities of abstraction—she crosses the line between documentary photography and poetic, intuitive color composition.
Jessica Backhaus (* 1970) is considered one of the most important voices in contemporary photography from Germany. With Plein Soleil, Kehrer Verlag presents her ninth monograph.
Author: Jessica Backhaus
Edition: Kehrer Verlag
Number of pages: 96
Price: 48 €
© Manon Lanjouère
Les Particules, le conte humain d’une eau qui meurt
The first publication in the new CIVIS MARITIMUS collection
Les Particules, a human tale of dying water, a poetic and photographic manifesto for ocean preservation.
Through a poetic and artistic approach, this book invites deep reflection on ocean pollution. Each image, through its plastic beauty, invites contemplation, but also, through its visual force, action. A book that testifies to the power of artistic creation to transform society
Text and illustrations: Manon Lanjouère
Preface: Michel Poivert
Interview: Manon Lanjouère et Ika Paul-Pont mené par Andreina de Bei.
Bilingual: French / English
Edition: The Eyes Publishing
Number of pages: 96
Price: 35 €
Products
Les Mots du Clic
By : Stimultania
A citizen tool at the service of image criticism.
Which look is to be taken on an image? Art, press or advertising photography. Printed, displayed, projected. How to talk about it? How to analyze its construction and its address? Les Mots du Clic game was created by Stimultania to question the viewer. Either way it enables to observe, interpret, to get vocabulary and is a civic reflection tool.
Goal of the game : Develop together the critique of a photograph chosen by the players or the mediator and acquire vocabulary. From 6 years
Price: 33 €
© Kikkerland
Shadow Game
By: Kikkerland
Pick a card. Using your hands & light, create shadow animals players have to guess.
Includes: USB powered spotlight lamp, 36 animal cards & one rule card.
Design: KDT
Materials: ABS, LED, paper, aspen wood, graphite, electric components
Price: 21 €
© MarieJeanne
MarieJeanne’s scents
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Kit Cyanotype + Maxi Kit. Emma Tarea
By: Emma Tarea
The cyanotype is an old photographic process invented in 1842. It works by applying a solution directly to the paper to make it photosensitive. The paper is then exposed to the sun’s rays, which give it its blue tint once the image has been rinsed. The parts that have been obscured with objects, negatives or cut-out paper remain white.
Suitable for children aged 5 and over and entirely handmade by Emma Tarea in her studio in Nice, the small kit (15 x 15 cm) contains 7 ready-to-use sheets, the maxi kit (30 x 30 cm) 6 sheets, and both come with instructions.
Price: 18€ and 27€
The Cyanotype Box Set
By: les Raffineurs
Have you always dreamed of creating your own unique art prints ? Cyanotype Box Set, you get everything you need to create impressive works of art at home, using only sunlight and small leaves or flowers.
The kit includes:
– a detailed instruction manual (in English and French)
– 2 bottles of powdered cyanotype emulsion; simply add water to each
– a glass printing frame
– 24 sheets of assorted papers with different textures
– a foam brush
– a measuring cup, a mixing cup and disposable gloves
Price: 50€
FORMcard
By: Peter Marigold
FORMcard is a handy, pocket sized card of meltable bio-plastic. Simply drop it in a cup of hot water to make little solutions to everyday problems. When it’s cool it’s really strong like nylon, so you can make solid durable solutions with it, and then you can reheat it again and again to adapt, change and reuse it. Because it’s a convenient card size, you can keep one in your pocket, wallet, kitchen drawer or tool box so that it’s there whenever and wherever it’s needed. A great benefit is that when it’s very hot, it sticks to some other plastics, so you can actually use it to instantly fix say…. a favourite plastic shovel when you are on holiday, or a broken fridge drawer. It’s also bio-degradable, so that at the end of it’s life it can be composted.
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The Candle Clock
By: Nathalie Dewez
A candle whose burning time is graduated graphically on the candle itself and serves as a clock. Initially commissioned by the BOZAR Shop in Brussels in 2007, this candle was produced in limited quantities. Nathalie Dewez lives and works in Marseille.
Price: 11€
The Strom collection by Raawii
By: Nicholai Wiig-Hansen
Inspired by the cubism of the early 20th century, Nicholai Wiig-Hansen contributes to Raawii’s production through experimental drawing and modelling techniques. The result is a refined simplicity, geometric shapes and colors applied to functional objects of everyday life. The result is a refined simplicity, geometric shapes and colors applied to functional objects of everyday life.
Price: from 50,50€ to 90€
Duvelleroy Fans
By: the House of Duvelleroy
Founded in 1827, Duvelleroy is a Parisian fan house, born from the dream of Jean-Pierre Duvelleroy to put the fan back into the hands of women. Since 2010, the House of Duvelleroy has been using the traditional know-how of French fan making for its Couture fans, while bringing this art of living into the contemporary world with its Ready-to-wear fans, made in small series in Spain.
Price range: 45€ to 55€