Death of the gallery owner Agathe Gaillard, separate prints – Liberation

For two days, the world of photography has been crying Agathe Gaillard. The gallery owner died on Friday June 13 at the Narbonne hospital (Aude) of a pulmonary embolism, at the age of 83. A passionate defender of photography, the blonde Agathe Gaillard had the Flair to open a gallery in the heart of Paris, 50 years ago, to defend this art despised by the institutions. And the success had been there since behind the red storefront of 3, rue du Pont Louis-Philippe (4th arrondissement), a whole world of artists and collectors had found themselves. In its wake, the black and white print market was born and then emulated elsewhere in the capital. Recognition of museums had followed. “My work was simply to have been erased in front of the photographers, to have sought to put them forward. And it is true that it is a job, gallery owner, in which being pretentious does not help. I discovered over time that the more we fade behind the photographers, the more we exist! ” told Agathe Gaillard to the review New Aquitaine news in 2020.

Born in Nîmes in 1941, the young woman discovered photography at La Galerie-Librairie La Hune in the late 1960s, where she was in charge of art books. Photographer’s wife