Nicolas Faure

 
Nicolas Faure (born 1949 in Geneva) apprenticed as a goldsmith in Geneva from 1968–1971 before traveling for several years to the Middle and Far East where he took his first photographs. Between 1975 and 1980 he lived in New York as a goldsmith and photographer. Faure was a teacher of photography at the University of Geneva, 1981–1983, and since 2001 at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art Lausanne ECAL. His work includes extensive photo series on Swiss highways 1994–1998, a collaboration with Time Life Books, and he publishes in magazines such as GEO, Actuel, and L'lllustré. Faure's fields of work include street photography, development of the Alpine landscape, design of public space, transportation infrastructure. He received federal grants in 1980, 1986, 1988; and the Kodak Prize in 1992.

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Nicolas Faure - The Order of Things
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.
Nicolas Faure - Portraits / Chantiers
2004
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
25.00 10.00 €
Portraits of the workers on the tramway line in Strasbourg, with texts by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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