Jean-Claude Bélégou 1975/1984 intimité et mélancolie

If the previous years were filled with enthusiasm and hope, the years that followed were rather those of disillusionment, first of all political, but also those of the discovery of the "world of work", that is to say of daily alienation, and of the pangs and turpitudes of love...

However, I started working on photobook projects from 1978 onwards – I didn't think for a moment about exhibiting, the book was my universe – and in 1979 I began to meet various personalities from the world of photography in Paris. Assiduous reading of the Nouveau Roman: Duras, Beckett and Pinget especially. First exhibition in 1980 on the initiative of Sonia Rogoff. I took part in the first meetings of photographic publishing during the first Mois de la Photo the same year, immediately spotted by Edouard Boubat and Claude Nori; Christian Caujolle who regularly publishes me in Libération, as well as Jean-Claude Lemagny whose support will remain unwavering, and Paul Jay who invites me several times to the congresses of the Gens d'Images....

Short stint in the teaching of philosophy from 1976 to 1980. Studied philosophy and Art History/archaeology at the University of Paris I - specialization in aesthetics, master's thesis on photography in 1976. D.E.A. in Philosophy Paris I Sorbonne. Degree in Art History in 1980.

While continuing my photographic work, in May 1982 I created the association Photographies and Co, and as such I organized exhibitions, conferences, meetings, editions and trainings, publishing prefaces, articles, always linking theoretical research work to my practice as an artist

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