LEMAITRE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF TIME

• A pioneer of photopainting and of integrating time into plastic arts
• From integrating photography in painting and literature ("Canailles", 1950) to painting on photographs (1952) and photo-transfers (1966), Maurice Lemaître has explored the most innovative roads into fusing techniques, signs, rhythms and the senses within the new cathedral of communication which is being built before us...
• ... Just as all the great names en 1920's photography (including photojournalists and reporters), and even their now-successful plagiarists, were influenced by Cubism, Dadaïsm, Surrealism and the abstract plastic arts, the great photographers of tomorrow's media (so pretentious today) can only be influenced by the works of the photopainter Maurice Lemaître, artist, theorician, reporter and photographer of time itself.
• Arthur Ganate the 23rd of April 1990