Biographie de Pierre Léonforte
Pierre Léonforte is a journalist who divides his time between France and Italy. He works with the magazines AD, Marie Claire Maison, the review Schnock and Air France Magazine. He has also been editor-in-chief of the Louis Vuitton City Guide, which he helped create. He has written several books, including L'Art de vivre à Marseille, Jean-Paul Hévin : Délices de Chocolat (Flammarion), Paris des Hommes (Minerva), Room Service (Tatami) and Louis Vuitton : 100 Malles de Légende (La Martinière).
He is also the author of the weekly column "Concierge Masqué" on the French Vanity Fair website. Founded in 1991, Tendance floue (literally, a tendency to be out of focus) is a group of thirteen photographers who have created a collective with the aim of working together to open up new perspectives and diversify the ways that contemporary photography can represent the world. In addition to their personal work, these photographers nurture their collective photographic research by comparing images, assemblages and combinations, their pooled results giving rise to completely new material.
Involved in the press, publishing, exhibitions, screenings, collection prints, and corporate and institutional marketing, this collective is open to everything, embracing all the different media of contemporary photography. Berlin is brought into focus by Tendance floue photographer Patrick Tourneboeuf. Patrick Tourneboeuf photographs people through what they leave behind, the spaces they embrace and sometimes abandon.
In 2000, he travelled around seaside resorts in the off-season to create part of his series Nulle part (Nowhere). By modelling time, his work on the Berlin Wall La Cicatrice (The scar) was able to take a new fix on forgetful memory. Today he continues his search into photographic memory, photographing French heritage sites for his series Monumental.
