Don\'t forget your flowers, Mr Katz! In the life of a bouquet of flowers there is occasionally a photographer.
He was also a member of the editorial board of the magazines Critique d\'art and Perspective ..
He was director of the Research Centre for Cultural and Social History of Art (EA4100) and the Inter-University Research Centre for Contemporary Art (CIRHAC).
About author(s): Éric Darragon , born in 1944, is a French art historian who taught at the University Paris 1 Sorbonne until his retirement.
The ever same photo with the same lens and, as he repeats this operation, he ends up, fair weather or foul, with a sequence of days with flowers, like those calendars from the post office.
This bouquet of the day, easily obtained, he takes it upstairs to his home, puts it in a vase, puts it in his world in always the same place, on the cooker, and takes a picture of it.
After all these years of being there, after all these works he has shown, that he sometimes was even the first to see, to have, and to show, he comes out of his house, let\'s say in the morning, on the day he usually buys a bunch of flowers at the market.
He discovered them before anyone else.
Certainly more than you might think.
No need to recall all their names.
Thousands of portraits, not of thousands of artists, but of a few dozen nonetheless.
All his life he has been making portraits of artists.
That\'s what happened to Benjamin Katz, and perhaps it was meant to happen to him.
And in the life of a photographer there are sometimes flowers.
Don\'t forget your flowers, Mr Katz! In the life of a bouquet of flowers there is occasionally a photographer
