Madeleine de Sinéty. A Life

Delpire - EAN : 9791095821953

MADELEINE DE SINETY

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EAN : 9791095821953

Paru le : 4 juin 2026

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Résumé : Madeleine de Sinéty. A life is the first monograph dedicated to the photographer, whose work spans four decades, across France and the United States. A self-taught photographer, Madeleine de Sinéty produced her best-known series in the village of Poilley, in Brittany, where she settled in the early 1970s. There, she documented the lives of its inhabitants, in colour and black and white, through an approach that was both artistic and deeply human. The body of work she leaves behind is the result of a keen observation of reality, whether in Paris, New York or Poilley. With humanity and tenderness, she offers an intimate account of a world in the midst of change.
Biographie : Trained at the École des Arts Décoratifs, she worked as an illustrator for fashion magazines and took up photography in the late 1960s whilst travelling in Iran. In 1972, she left Paris to settle in Poilley (Ille-et-Vilaine). From the 1980s onwards, she moved to the United States, first to California and then to Maine. Her work, praised by the American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, was the subject of an exhibition at the BNF in 1996. The exhibition ‘Un village’, dedicated to her work in Poilley and presented at the GwinZegal contemporary art centre in Guingamp in 2020, was a resounding success.