Hughes Dubois: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Photographer of artworks}}

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| image = Hughes-Dubois portrait.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1957}}

| birth_place = Tournai, Belgium

| education = Ecole supérieure des arts Saint-Luc (Belgium)

| style = Photographer

| notable_works = Borobudur under the full moon

| awards = International Book Art Tribal Price, 2014; Best photography MGA Book Award, 2014

| website = {{url|https://www.hughesdubois.be}}

'''Hughes Dubois''' (born 1957) is a photographer specialized in the photography of artworks.

His "photographic gaze", in the words of Danièle Gillemon, produced by a combination of staging and lighting of objects, has influenced the form of photography in many museums, institutions, art galleries and private collections.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Elena Martinez-Jacquet |date=Summer 2014 |title=An Encounter with a Creator of Images: The Photographic Approach of Hughes Dubois |url=https://www.tribalartmagazine.com/en/back-issues/163-tribal-72-summer-2014.html |periodical=Tribal Art Magazine}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Adenike Cosgrove|date=29 November 2019 |title=Photographing African Art Like A Pro - An Interview with Hughes Dubois |url=https://www.imodara.com/magazine/photographing-african-art-like-a-pro/ |website=IMO DARA |language=en}}</ref>

Parallel to his career in artwork photography, Dubois has developed his own artistic practice, with works appearing in galleries and art books. Over his career spanning 40 years, his ongoing goal has been to demonstrate the great sensitivity of both tribal and classical arts.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Danièle Gillemon |date=5 May 2004 |title=La sculpture songye et son double Dialogue intense entre la statuaire réelle et les photographies en noir et blanc d'Hughes Dubois |url=https://www.lesoir.be/art/d-20040505-W2G2NQ?referer=%2Farchives%2Frecherche%3Fdatefilter%3Danytime%26sort%3Ddate%2Bdesc%26start%3D10%26word%3Dhughes%2Bdubois |periodical=Le Soir}}</ref>

Dubois was born in [[Tournai]], Belgium and took up photography at the age of twelve, taking photographs of landscapes and strangers in the street. He began his artistic training at the [[Écoles Supérieures des Arts Saint-Luc]] (Mons, Belgium) then embarked on architectural studies at the École Saint-Luc (Brussels, Belgium), before switching to study photography in [[Ath]] (Belgium).

In 1977, Dubois started his professional career as an advertising photographer at the Studio Asselberghs (Belgium). In 1978, he developed a passion for photographing art after seeing his first [[Hemba people|Hemba]] statuette.

In 1982, he set off on a voyage across the Americas with Émile Deletaille to produce several publications on pre-Columbian arts. In 1984, he met [[Michel Leveau]], founder of the [[Musée Dapper]] in Paris, for whom he has produced thirty plus publications on African tribal arts.<ref name=":2" />

In 1999, he was contacted by [[Jacques Kerchache]] in relation to his project to create the [[Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac|Musée du Quai Branly]]. Dubois photographed the works presented in the [[Pavillon des Sessions]] as an initiative to bring the [[tribal art]]s back to the Louvre. «''Sculptures»'' would be the first work to be published by the Musée du Quai Branly, followed by others. In 2003, Dubois set up, in collaboration with Tibet specialist [[Amy Heller]], an iconographic collection of the arts of the peoples of Himalaya for the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. This project would lead to the publication of the book ''Himalayas – An Aesthetic Adventure''.

In 2012, he worked for the [[Museum of Islamic Art, Doha]], taking photographs for a book presenting the [[Doha]] masterpieces at the Musée du Louvre as part of the ''From'' Cordova ''to'' Samarkand exhibition. In 2013, for the opening of the Department of Islamic Art at the [[Musée du Louvre]], Lebanese artist [[Walid Raad]]'s exhibition featured works produced from photographs of Islamic artworks taken by Hughes Dubois. On this occasion, the Louvre Museum and the artist published ''Préface à la troisième édition''.

Dubois has collaborated with numerous museums including: [[Royal Museum for Central Africa|AfricaMuseum]] - Royal Museum for Central Africa (Brussels, Belgium), [[Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac|Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac]] (Paris, France), [[Art Institute of Chicago]], [[King Baudouin Foundation]] (Belgium), Fondation Dapper (Paris, France), [[Baur Foundation]] – Museum of Far Eastern Art (Geneva, Switzerland), [[Guimet Museum]] (Paris, France), [[Louvre Palace|Le Louvre]] (Paris, France), [[Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris|Musée des arts décoratifs]] (Paris, France), [[Museum of Islamic Art, Doha]] (Doha, Qatar), [[Beyeler Foundation]] (Switzerland), The Al-Mansouria Foundation For Culture and Creativity ([[Saudi Arabia]]) and other art collections all over the world.

'''I'''n 2004, the exhibition ''Le Sensible et La Force'' was held at the AfricaMuseum - Royal Museum for Central Africa (Brussels, Belgium) and an eponymous portfolio of 24 silver prints was published in a 12-copy edition. This body of work consisted in «extracting the portraits» of statues by showing their sensitivity and humanity, in order to underline their power and beauty.<ref name=":1" />

In 2013, ''Formes et Façons'' was shown at the [[Val de Bagnes Museum]] and the [[Mauvoisin Dam]] (Switzerland).<ref name=":3" />

From 2013 to 2017, Dubois worked on ''Borobudur Under the Full Moon'', a photographic project undertaken with his wife Caroline Leloup Dubois, which took three years — and over 110 nights — to shoot the world's biggest Buddhist temple, [[Borobudur]] (Indonesia). Since 2018, ''Borobudur Under the Full Moon'' has toured as a travelling exhibition under the patronage of [[UNESCO]]. A limited edition of 9 copies of an eponymous portfolio in platinum palladium and an art book were published on this occasion.

In 2014, the ''Bismarck Archipelago Art'' catalogue was awarded the International Tribal Art Book Prize – the ICMA Award and the Best Photography Prize of the MGA Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=ICMA Gold Award 2014 |url=http://hughesdubois.be/admin/wp-content/uploads/motovumprize41.pdf |website=Hughes Dubois}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Prix international du livre d'Art Tribal (version française) 2014 |url=http://hughesdubois.be/admin/wp-content/uploads/prix_tribal_art1.pdf |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=Hughes Dubois}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=MGA Book Award 2014 |url=http://hughesdubois.be/admin/wp-content/uploads/MGA-Book-Award-2014_Archipel-Bismarck2.pdf |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=Hughes Dubois}}</ref>

Since 1982, Dubois’ work has been shown in personal and group exhibitions.

* 2004: ''Le sensible & La force'' - AfricaMuseum - Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale de Tervuren, Belgium<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Séphora Thomas |date=Spring–Summer 2004 |title=Le sensible et la force |journal=Art Tribal|language=fr|issue=5 |pages=60–73}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Philippe Bourgoin |date=Spring–Summer 2004 |title=La redoutable statuaire Songye d'Afrique centrale |journal=Art Tribal|language=fr|issue=5 |pages=74–85}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Anne-Marie Bouttiaux |date=Summer 2004 |title=Sensitivity and Power: A Photographic Homage to Songye Sculptors |journal=Tribal Art |issue=35 |pages=64–69}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Raoul Lehuard |date=Summer 2004 |title=Le sensible et la force : photographies de Hughes Dubois et sculptures Songye |journal=Arts d'Afrique noire, arts premiers |pages=49–52}}</ref>

* 2013: ''Formes & Façons'' – Musée de Bagne, [[Verbier]], Switzerland<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Roger Pierre Turine|date=24 July 2013|title=Les fécondes images d'Hughes Dubois|journal=La Libre Belgique|url=https://www.museedebagnes.ch/images/presse/MB-FF_LibreBelgique-LibreCulture_24072013.pdf}}.</ref>

* 2015: Hughes Dubois: ''35 year career in photography'' - Parcours des Mondes, Paris<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plisnier |first=Valentine |title=Exhibition: Hughes Dubois a thirty-five year career in photography |url=http://hughesdubois.be/admin/wp-content/uploads/flyer-expo-1.pdf |access-date= |website=Hughes Dubois}}</ref>

* 2022: ''Hughes Dubois, sculpteur d’ombres et de lumières –'' Galerie Origines ''–'' Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles, France<ref>{{Cite web |last=Turine |first=Roger Pierre |date=22 July 2022 |title=Hughes Dubois, sculpteur d'ombre et de lumière |url=https://www.galerieorigines.com/en/catalogs/hughes-dubois |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=Galerie Origines}}</ref>

* 2018: ''Borobudur Joyau de l'art bouddhique'', Baur Museum, Geneva, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Irène Languin|date=15 May 2018|title=Plongée en images dans la majesté de Borobudur|journal=La Tribune de Genève|url=https://www.tdg.ch/culture/plongee-images-majeste-borobudur/story/22691021}}</ref>

* 2018: ''Borobudur Under The Full Moon'', Mairie du 1er arrondissement de Paris(1st district town hall), France<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Françoise Dargent|date=17 December 2018|title=Under the Full Moon: cent dix clairs de lune à Borobudur|journal=Le Figaro|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2018/12/17/03005-20181217ARTFIG00209-cent-dix-clairs-de-lune-a-borobudur.php}}</ref>

Dubois' photographs have joined public and private collections all over the world.

* Le Louvre (France)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Georges Meurant |date=Summer 2000 |title=Arts Premiers au Louvre : Hughes Dubois a saisi les Arts premiers au Louvre De l'énergie sous l'objectif |url=https://www.tribalartmagazine.com/fr/magazines/110-tribal-23-ete-2000.html |language=fr |periodical=Tribal Art Magazine - le monde l'art tribal}}</ref>

* {{Cite book |last1=Anne Leurquin |title=Utotombo L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges |last2=Jan Debbaut |last3=Herman Burssens |last4=Elze Bruyninx |last5=Marie-Louise Bastin |last6=Joseph Cornet |publisher=[[Société des expositions du Palais des Beaux arts]] |year=1988 |location=Bruxelles |pages=337}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Valérie Beau |title=Objets interdits |last2=Laurence Husson |last3=Christiane Flagayrettes |last4=Phyllis M. Martin |last5=Adams Jones |publisher=[[Musée Fondation Dapper]] |year=1989 |isbn=9782906067097 |location=Paris |pages=375}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Pratapaditya Pal |title=Himalayas – An Aesthetic Adventure|last2=Amy Heller |publisher=[[Art Institute of Chicago]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0520239005 |location=Chicago |pages=312 |language=en}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Anne-Marie Bouttiaux |title=Le sensible et la force |last2=Viviane Baeke |last3=Hughes Dubois |publisher=[[Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale]] |year=2004 |isbn=9789075894608 |location=Bruxelles |pages=88}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Peter Fuhring |title=Orfèvrerie francaise. La Collection Jourdan-Barry |last2=Michèle Bimbenet-Privat |last3=Alexis Kugel |publisher=[[J.Kugel]] |year=2005 |location=Paris |pages=285 |oclc=70187494}}

* {{Cite book |last=Sabiha Al-Kemir |title=From Cordoba to Samarkand Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, 2006, Musée des arts islamiques, Doha et musée du Louvre, Paris |publisher=[[Musée des arts islamiques, Doha et musée du Louvre/Éditions 5 Continents]] |year=2006 |isbn=88-7439-345-8 |location=Paris |pages=216 |language=en, fr}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Herman Burssens |last2=Marnix Neerman |title=African Faces - Un hommage au masque africain |publisher=[[Editions Lannoo]]|year=2006 |isbn=9789020982527 |location=Brussels |pages=312 |language=nl,fr}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Roger Pierre Turine |date=30 January 2009 |title=Bas le masque, vive le portrait ! |journal=La Libre Belgique |url=https://www.lalibre.be/culture/livres-bd/2009/01/31/bas-le-masque-vive-le-portrait-TF5S5FBC6JDPJPK6GY3UV3MR5M/}}</ref>

* {{Cite book |last1=Oliver Wick |title=Visual Encounters Africa, Oceania and Modern Art, 2009, Beyeler Foundation, Suisse|last2=Antje Denner |publisher=[[Beyeler Foundation/Christoph Merian Verlag]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-3856164829 |location=Basel |pages=41 |language=en}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Sophie Makariou |title=Les Arts de l'Islam au Musee du Louvre |last2=Marie Fradet |last3=Frédéric Viaux |publisher=[[Musée du Louvre/Hazan]] |year=2012 |isbn=9782754106207 |location=Paris |pages=46}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Kevin Conru |title=L'art de l'archipel Bismark |last2=Klaus-Jochen Krüger |last3=Ingrid Heermann |last4=Bart Van Bussel |last5=Hughes Dubois |publisher=[[Éditions 5 Continents]] |year=2013 |isbn=9788874396443 |location=Milan |pages=327}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Monique Crick |title=Alfred Baur : pionnier et collectionneur |last2=Helen Loveday |last3=Estelle Niklès van Osselt |publisher=[[Fondation Baur, Musée des arts d'Extrême-Orient/ Éditions 5 continents]] |year=2015 |isbn=9788874396948 |location=Milan |pages=455}}

* {{Cite book |last1=Carpenter |first1=Bruce |title=Borobudur under the full moon |last2=Caroline Dubois |last3=Hughes Dubois |publisher=[[Éditions de l'Ouvert, Belgique]] |others=Photographs by Caroline Dubois and Hughes Dubois |year=2018 |isbn=9782930043005 |location=Brussels |pages=197 |language=en}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Émilie Quitemelle |date=2019 |title=Caroline et Hughes Dubois - Borobudur Under The Full Moon |journal=Profession Photographe |issue=april}}</ref>

* {{Cite book |last1=Jérôme Ghesquière |title=L'Asie des photographes |last2=Sophie Makariou |publisher=[[Musée Guimet-Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais]] |year=2018 |isbn=9782711870967 |location=Paris |pages=245}}

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