Dolores Marat
Illustration — Marat in 2021 Dolorès Marat (born 1944) is a French photographer.
Dolores Marat

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- Born
- 1944 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- photographer
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Marat in 2021 Dolorès Marat (born 1944) is a French photographer.
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Life and work
Life and work
Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assistant at L'Oréal magazine Votre Beauté, and a studio photographer, before finally working as an independent photographer from 1984. She began her personal work in the mid-1990s. She uses colour slide film and her prints are made using the Fresson process.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Dolorès Marat, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2003 • Sirocco, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, May–June 2013 • Festival des Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France, 2014 • Chromatic Disruption, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2023
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Publications
• Éclipse. Paris: Contrejour, 1990. • Rives. Paris: Marval, 1995. • Carven: half a century of elegance, Dominique Paulvé. Paris: Gründ, 1995.. • Boulevard Maritime. With Frédéric H. Fajardie. Point du jour, 2000. • Labyrinthe. Point du jour and Dewi Lewis, 2001. • New-York USA. With Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Marval, 2002. • Illusion. With Marie Darrieussecq. Éditions Filigranes, 2003. • Near Life Experience. Paris: Hors Commerce, 2003. Curated by Angelin Preljocaj, edited and with text by Éric Reinhardt. • La mer by la tranquillité. Petits Matins, 2005. Journal by Jean-Luc Bitton, illustrated with photographs by Marat. • Paris, correspondances. Avignon, Pionnière, 2015. With an essay by Arlette Farge. • Palmyre et autres Orients. Avignon, Pionnière, 2016. With an essay by Dominique Janvier. • Mezzo voce. Paris: Fario, 2018. With an essay by Lionel Bourg. • Lune rouge et autres animaux familiers Paris: Fario, 2021.. With an essay by Vincent Pélissier. • Dolorès Marat. Photo Poche. Arles: Actes Sud, 2023.. With an introduction by Éric Reinhardt.
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The scholarly and documentary record stands as follows. Recorded as having received Officer of Arts and Letters.
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