Series
Industrial Beauty
USA - New York...
USA -  New York, 2006
ALLEMAGNE - Col...
ALLEMAGNE - Cologne - 2008
BELGIQUE - Anve...
BELGIQUE - Anvers - 2007 (01)
FRANCE - Hayang...
FRANCE - Hayange - 2007
BELGIQUE - Anve...
BELGIQUE - Anvers - 2007 (02)
BELGIQUE - Anve...
BELGIQUE - Anvers - 2007 (03)
CHINE - Ile de ...
CHINE - Ile de Yangshan - 2008
CHINE - Nanjing...
CHINE - Nanjing - 2008 (01)
ESPAGNE - Barce...
ESPAGNE - Barcelone - 2006
FRANCE - Donge
FRANCE - Donge
ESPAGNE - San A...
ESPAGNE - San Andrès de la Barca - 2006
FRANCE - Cordem...
FRANCE - Cordemais - 2006
FRANCE - Gandra...
FRANCE - Gandrange - 2006
France - Gardan...
France - Gardanne - 2007
FRANCE - Issy-l...
FRANCE - Issy-les-Moulineaux - 2006
FRANCE - Saint-...
FRANCE - Saint-Nazaire - 2009 (01)
FRANCE - Saint-...
FRANCE - Saint-Nazaire - 2009 (02)
USA - Chateau d...
USA - Chateau d'eau - Louisiane - 2007
LITUANIE - Klai...
LITUANIE - Klaipéda - 2007 (01)
LITUANIE - Klai...
LITUANIE - Klaipéda - 2007 (02)
LITUANIE - Klai...
LITUANIE - Klaipéda - 2007 (03)
LITUANIE - Klai...
LITUANIE - Klaipéda - 2007 (04)
MALTE - Port de...
MALTE - Port de Marsaxlokk - 2006
PAYS-BAS - Rott...
PAYS-BAS - Rotterdam - 2007  (01)
PAYS-BAS - Rott...
PAYS-BAS - Rotterdam - 2007 (02)
USA - Carville ...
USA - Carville - Louisiane - 2007
USA - Lauderdal...
USA - Lauderdale - Louisiane - 2007
Triptyque CHINE...
Triptyque CHINE - Nanjing - 2008
PAYS-BAS - Rott...
PAYS-BAS - Rotterdam - 2007 (03)
MEXIQUE - Mexic...
MEXIQUE - Mexico
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Biography
Passionate for model-making and aeronautics since childhood, Alain Pras eagerly devoured his first subscriptions to French aircraft periodicals such as Aviation Magazine and Pilote at a young age. At that time, however, as flying model planes was complicated and required membership in one of Grenoble’s restrictive clubs, it would be the model train that would catch his attention, if only for the fact that the network of miniature rails could be more easily built and installed in his family home. 

The pivotal moment of his early career would be when he caught sight of a cover of Pilote featuring a brightly-colored image of the popular French jazz musician Claude Luter standing among a network of New-Orleans style model trains that he himself had built. Pras would continue to refer warmly to this image for years to come, as it was then that he decided to become a model architecture designer. After studying the trade, completing his military service and working variety such as stone lithography, he first began photographing the industrial sites, trains, and stations he visited in these intervening years.

In 1977, he joined the French train model-maker Jouef, where he created 25 mockups of trains for the first large exposition at the newly-inaugurated Centre Pompidou. Titled “The Age of Trains” (Le Temps des gares), Pras’ work was largely hailed by critics, including Le Monde’s André Fermigier, who wrote: “Alain Pras’ extraordinary models reconstitute faithfully and with a certain poetic truth all the charms of their originals.”

After this first major success, Pras’ work attracted prestigious clients from both France and abroad, including the SNCF (the French national train network), Alstom, Airbus, Air Liquide, Aréva, as well as the French national Army and Navy. With 35 collaborators, the company continued reproducing large- and small-scale industrial prototypes, such as, notably, the eight-meter-long life-size mockup of the nose of a TGV train exhibited in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

Nevertheless, throughout these years, Pras continued to tour and photograph industrial sites, factories and ports, developing the notion of what he would later call “Industrial Beauty.” With a 6 x 6 Rolleiflex bi-lens camera in hand, he captured breathtaking views of water towers, hydraulic cranes, and signal boxes, favoring the vivid colors they often presented. Selling his company in 2009 to concentrate on his photography career, Alain Pras today works mostly in digital photography, continuing to affirm his most pertinent message: Yes, the industrial is beautiful.

Exhibitions



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Issy-les-Moulineaux

April 19th-July 22nd 2012
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AAF Milan

February 1-5, 2012
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November 3-30, 2011

Franchement Art

September 2-5 , 2011







Art Saint-Germain-des-Prés

May 19–22, 2011

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Lille Art Fair

March 24–27, 2011

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Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés

November 4–30, 2010

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Triptyque

October 9–November 21, 2010


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Art Elysées

October 21–25, 2010


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Publications
Book jacket IRON PICTURES
Bound book with a lamineted jacket
Landscape format : 40,5 x 28 cm
252 pages / 200 pictures
EAN : 978 2 84105 2 462

Publisher : Editions du Regard



Price : 59,90 euros



Presentation :

The industrial heritage(holdings) is recognized today. Measures of protection and protection(saving) were organized(been organized) in numerous countries so that these sites made the object of rehabilitation, preservation. On a purely aesthetic plan(shot), their architectural beauty and their poetic quality did not escape the artists and more particularly the photographers for whom these buildings(ships), fallow lands or not, are an infinite source(spring) of inspiration.
Alain Pras’s design, however, stems from a distinct angle. He wants to sharpen the focus on the forthcoming industrial stock. To this end, he watches and enjoys  the cutting-edge facilities of the day. He is a state-of-the-art-technology beauty-hunter. His ‘preys’ are the major industrial sites that he wants to share with us.

On sale in the gallery and in all the good bookshops, which of them:
  • at the bookshop « Géronimo », 2 rue Amboise Thomas, 57000 METZ
  • at the bookshop « Le 20ème siècle et ses sources », 4 rue Aubry le Boucher 75004 PARIS
  • at the bookshop « La Friche », 36 rue Léon Frot 75011 PARIS
  • at the bookshop « Livre Sterling », 49 Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008 PARIS
  • at the Cinema’s bookshop MK2, 128-162 Avenue de France, 75013 PARIS
  • at the bookshop « Joseph Jibert » 26 Boulevard St Michel, 75006 PARIS
  • at the bookshop « La Hune », 170 Boulevard St Germain, 75006 PARIS
  • at the bookshop « Mollat », 15 rue Vital Carles, 33000 BORDEAUX
  • at the bookshop « La Manoeuvre », 58 rue de la Roquette, 75011 PARIS
Photos formats
"Industrial Beauty" series

Process : Inkjet print pressed between aluminum and Plexiglass.

Rectangular prints are available in three sizes: 100 x 150cm, 120 x 80cm and 100 x 67cm, and in 8 editions.
Square-format prints are available in one size: 70 x 70cm, and in 10 editions.
Rear-view truck triptychs also available in one format : 72 x 48cm, and in 10 editions.
Series
Caddie Superstar
37'2
37'2
Au suivant
Au suivant
Blue Lagoon
Blue Lagoon
Bowling
Bowling
Cabaret
Cabaret
Garden Party
Garden Party
H.D.T
H.D.T
Ice Bar
Ice Bar
Garde à vue
Garde à vue
L'Aquarium
L'Aquarium
Orange électriq...
Orange électrique
Particule éléme...
Particule élémentaire
Quart d'heure a...
Quart d'heure américain
Sergent Chef
Sergent Chef
Shark Attack
Shark Attack
Splash
Splash
Starting Block
Starting Block
Tarmak
Tarmak
Biography
Christophe HARGOUES was born in Montpelier in 1973.

His first life is "forest". Awarded a diploma by the College of the Wood in 1998, he works within this sector during 7 years on responsible jobs.
In 2006, he decides  to go out this channel and chooses Photography.

After one year of perfection in Paris, he joins with two photographers and creates the Lubrik agency in 2008.

His photographic work turns naturally to colored, minimalist and graphic, often moved universes. He lives and works in Paris.
Exhibitions
Photos formats
60 x 90 cm - 1600 €
67 x 100 cm - 1800 €
80 x 120 cm - 2 200 €
Series
ESSciENCE oF THINGS
Altruisme - 200...
Altruisme - 2007
Contestation - ...
Contestation - 2010
Ma cicatrice - ...
Ma cicatrice - 2007
Vengeance ! - 2...
Vengeance ! - 2008
Prévisible - 20...
Prévisible - 2009
Ouverture d'esp...
Ouverture d'esprit - 2009
L'Illusion du c...
L'Illusion du contrôle - 2009
Conditionné - 2...
Conditionné - 2009
La destinée - 2...
La destinée - 2007
Improbable - 20...
Improbable - 2009
Whirlpool - 200...
Whirlpool - 2007
Le consumérisme...
Le consumérisme - 2008
Carpe diem ! - ...
Carpe diem ! - 2008
La Chance - 200...
La Chance - 2004
Hyperspace - 20...
Hyperspace - 2005
Puberté - 2007
Puberté - 2007
DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHESIS
La seconde - 20...
La seconde - 2010
L'air - 2010
L'air - 2010
Le temps - 2010
Le temps - 2010
Le poids - 2010
Le poids - 2010
La température ...
La température - 2010
Frénésie - 2010
Frénésie - 2010
Un Autre monde ...
Un Autre monde #1 - 2010
Biography


I explore analogies between my reflections on humanist subjects and phenomena in the physical sciences. For example, I share my reflections on the benefits and the drawbacks of Contention. For this purpose, I set myself searching for phenomena in the physical sciences that will allow me to introduce my ideas. Once I have chosen a subject, I use engineering and photographic techniques to craft my work with no recourse to image manipulation.


Often, the work I create serves as a tool with which to reflect. Might not transdisciplinary thinking be a method to explore hidden truths? After all, we all experience longer periods of reflection. After a few days the solution sometimes arrives spontaneously at an unexpected moment, often upon waking or falling asleep. A first hypothesis is that reflection continues unconsciously maybe over a number of days. In this case, we let time do its work. A second hypothesis is that reflection was probably concluded, but an unconscious barrier prevents us from formulating the solution. We need a few days where our mind is no longer focused on the problem for the solution to emerge.

Myself, I use a transdisciplinary approach as a means to circumvent the block posited by the second hypothesis. In effect, the solution may violate some of our conscious certainties. This might led one to stumble into certain difficulties as our conscience self sometimes rules out the solution, no matter how simple it may be.


Hence I explore phenomena in the physics that present analogies with areas of humanist research that interest me. Using these parallels, I work to develop extended metaphors. The questions that result do not all have the same relevance. Nonetheless, this enables me to arrive at new conclusions which would not have been possible by remaining in the initial area of study. Hence I hope to discover new forms of truth that would not have been open to me otherwise.



MAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Galerie Images de Fer – Paris – 29 March / 30 April 2011.
  • Art Park in Florence – Italy – July 2010.
  • Inauguration of the European Art Council – Paris – June 2010.
  • 200 m2 at the Palais de la Découverte – Paris – January / May 2010.
  • Colorida Gallery in Lisbonne – Portugal – since February 2008.

 

MAIN COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

  • Art power – Concilio europeo dell’arte in Venice – Italy – October 2010.
  • Maison Européenne de la Photographie – Paris – December 2009.
  • Art en capitale – Grand Palais - Paris – November 2008.
Exhibitions
Photos formats