The Fahey/Klein Gallery on La Brea has the Desire to See: Photographs by Agnès Varda exhibit open to the public for just a little while longer, until April 13, and if you’re a Varda fan, experience her photography in person. You may have been exposed to her brilliant movies, in which you caught glimpses of some of her photos. Now for the first time you can actually see these and other photos and it’s a very rare treat, at times emotional, at times funny, always delightful. You can see photographs of Harrison Ford and Fidel Castro as well as magnificent self portraits and much more. It is not to be missed. From the gallery’s description:
The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present “Desire to See: Photographs by Agnès Varda”, the first exhibition in the United States dedicated exclusively to Agnès Varda’s photographic work. This retrospective exhibition delves into the rich photographic history of the French New Wave filmmaker and provides a comprehensive visual narrative of Varda’s life and creative pursuits through a diverse selection of photographs spanning from vintage lifetime prints developed and printed by Varda to newly discovered posthumous works.
Desire to See: Photographs by Agnès Varda showcases Varda’s self-portraits, offering an introspective look into the artist’s identity alongside portraits of fellow artists (Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Delphine Seyrig, Federico Fellini, Catherine Deneuve, Luchino Visconti, and more), highlighting her radical vision and passionate engagement with the world. Documentary photographs from her extensive travels through diverse locations such as Cuba, China, and Los Angeles, as well as her beloved home in Paris, illustrate her keen observational eye. Varda’s photographic career predates her filmmaking and intersects fluidly throughout her six decades of creative pursuits. Still photographs often influenced and inspired her films, as is the case of Le Pointe Courte and Ulysse, and likewise filmmaking was the subject and context for her still photographs. Varda’s eternally free spirit guided her restless curiosity and imagination while defining a strong, clear, experimental, feminine voice visible within every frame.