Bio: Denis Brihat works with both form and color. In the 1950's, he was one of the first French photographers to move from photojournalism and advertisement to create photographs "for a wall" rather than for a magazine or newspaper.
In the 1960's, he produced a series on form and matter, photographing everyday objects and transcending them in his superb prints. Vegetable slices, tire tracks in the snow, bits of glass and blades of grass, all tremendously enlarged, isolated through lighting and out of all context, stare at us from the wall and trigger unexpectedly powerful emotions.

Photographs: Early on, he isolates his subject, changes the scale dramatically, highlights what is normally invisible, and for example, transforms running water into a star-filled sky. In 1968 he turns to metallic tonings, taking the technique to perfection and adding color to his studies of form. The original black and white photograph is "colored" by the photographer's application of this technique and by the chemicals that will fix them forever. Denis Brihat's work is pure, embarrassingly and voluptuously so at the same time. The flower or the fruit, isolated and enlarged, are athropomorphic with often erotic parts. Beyond their formal beauty, they evoke sexuality, birth and death. Denis Brihat's prints are always limited to 10 prints for the 30cm x 40cm images, 6 prints for the 40cm x 50cm images and 3 prints for the largest ones.