Le Bal (arts centre)

The building is a former 1930s dance hall called Chez Isis.

Le Bal co-publishes two or three books each year, including L’Anti-collection, a limited-edition artist’s book which it jointly publishes with the Centre national des arts plastiques, and Les Carnets du Bal.{{cite web | url = http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mh/les-editions/les-editions-du-bal/les-carnets-du-bal/ | access-date = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Les Carnets Du Bal | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150320110758/http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mh/les-editions/les-editions-du-bal/les-carnets-du-bal/ | archive-date = 20 March 2015 | url-status = dead }}

Le Bal’s educational platform, La Fabrique du Regard, has run programmes since 2008 for young people aged 8–18, especially from disadvantaged areas of Paris and its suburbs, to critically look at images.Interview between Diane Dufour and Mark Feustel. FOAM Magazine. Issue #25, Winter 2010. {{ISBN|9789070516208}}. http://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/25_traces http://www.marcfeustel.com/foam-25/{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/category/mh/la-fabrique-du-regard/en-2-mots-la-fabrique-du-regard-menu-haut/ | access-date = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = In a Few Words... | archive-date = 2 July 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150702230237/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/category/mh/la-fabrique-du-regard/en-2-mots-la-fabrique-du-regard-menu-haut/ | url-status = dead }}

Le Bal Books is run by Sébastian Hau.

Le Bal Café is operated by Alice Quillet, Anna Trattles and Anselme Blayney.{{cite web |url=http://www.eurostar.com/us-en/destination/country/france/place/91418 |title=- Eurostar |website=www.eurostar.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317170213/http://www.eurostar.com/us-en/destination/country/france/place/91418 |archive-date=2016-03-17}}{{cite web | url=http://www.thegannet.com/interviews/meals/breakfast/2015/03/alice-quillet-anselme-blayney/ | title=Who is Chef Alice Quillet Anselme Blayney? [Everything You Need to Know] | date=22 August 2022 }} It serves a French take on traditional British cuisine.

Since 2010 Le Bal has been involved with the annual Prix des Ecoles d’Art SFR Jeunes Talents / Le Bal (The SFR / Le Bal award for young photography with ADAGP).ADAGP is Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques; SFR is Société française du radiotéléphone It is a competition open to art school students and former students who graduated less than three years before entering. It carries a 5000 Euro prize intended to support the winner for two years in making or completing a documentary photography project.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/young-photographers-at-le-bal/ | access-date = 26 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Young Photographers at Le Bal | archive-date = 7 April 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150407002215/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/young-photographers-at-le-bal/ | url-status = dead }}{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/samuel-gratacap/ | access-date = 26 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Samuel Gratacap: Empire / Le Bal Award for Young Artists with ADAGP }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Antoine D'Agata's Anticorps (2013), a catalogue published by Le Bal and Éditions Xavier Barral for his retrospective at Le Bal, won the Rencontres d'Arles Author’s Book Award in 2013.{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/jul/08/discovery-award-recontres-darles-eid-sabbagh-quere | date = 8 July 2013 | access-date = 25 October 2015 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | author-link = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | work = The Guardian | title = Lost and found: Discovery award winners at Recontres d'Arles 2013}} In 2015, the book Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015) won the Photography Catalogue of the Year award in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.{{cite web | url = http://aperture.org/blog/announcing-winners-2015-photobook-awards/ | date = 13 November 2015 | access-date = 13 November 2015 | publisher = Aperture Foundation | title = Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards}}{{cite news | url = https://time.com/4110384/winners-announced-for-2015-paris-photo-aperture-foundation-photobook-awards/ | first = Rachel | last = Lowry | date = 13 November 2015 | access-date = 13 November 2015 | publisher = Time | title = Winners Announced for 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards}}

• Anonymes: L’Amérique sans nom: Photographie et Cinéma (Anonymous: Unnamed America in Photography and Film), September–December 2010. A thematic exhibition with works by Jeff Wall, Walker Evans, Chauncey Hare, Lewis Baltz, Standish Lawder, Sharon Lockhart, Doug Rickard, Anthony Hernandez, Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese, and Bruce Gilden. Curated by Diane Dufour and David Campany.{{cite web | url = http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mg/agenda/bonjour-tout-le-monde/ | accessdate = 13 March 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Anonymes: L'Amérique sans nom : photographie et cinéma | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150320062418/http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mg/agenda/bonjour-tout-le-monde/ | archive-date = 20 March 2015 | url-status = dead }}{{cite journal | year = 2010 | first = Diane | last = Smyth | title = The View from the Streets | periodical = British Journal of Photography | volume = 157 | issue = 7783 | pages = 58–61 | publisher = Incisive Financial Publishing Limited}} Held in association with Mois de la Photo, Paris.
• Foto/Gráfica: a New History of the Latin-American Photobook, January - April 2012. Curated by Horacio Fernandez.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/PRESS_RELEASE_FOTOGRAFICA_LE-BAL_EN.pdf | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Foto/Gráfica: a New History of the Latin-American Photobook}}
• Northern Ireland (1970-1990): Gilles Peress, May–August 2012. Curated by Gilles Peress and Diane Dufour.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/PROG_2012_LE-BAL_EN.pdf | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = 2012 Program of Le Bal}}
• Chris Killip: What Happened: Great Britain 1970-1990 (originated at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany) and John Smith: The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), May–August 2012.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/chris-killip-what-happened-great-britain-1970-1990-2/ | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Chris Killip What Happened / Great Britain 1970-1990}}
• Antoine D'Agata: Anticorps, January–April 2013.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/antoine-dagata-anticorps/ | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Antoine D'Agata Anticorps}}{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.fr/paris/art/antoine-dagata-anticorps|title = Antoine d'Agata, 'Anticorps' | date=25 February 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/sil-y-a-lieu-je-pars-avec-vous |title=S'IL Y A LIEU JE PARS AVEC VOUS - Paris Photo Agenda |website=www.parisphoto.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100915/http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/sil-y-a-lieu-je-pars-avec-vous |archive-date=2016-03-04}} Also shown at Fotomuseum Den Haag, May–September 2012;{{cite web|url=http://www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl/en/exhibitions/antoine-d%E2%80%99agata |title=Antoine d'Agata |publisher=Fotomuseumdenhaag.nl |date=2012-09-02 |accessdate=2023-01-24}} Spazio Forma, Milan, June–September 2013;{{cite web |url=http://www.formafoto.it/2013/06/anticorpi-antoine-dagata/ |title=Anticorpi di Antoine d'Agata – fino a Domenica 1 settembre 2013 |access-date=2015-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044631/http://www.formafoto.it/2013/06/anticorpi-antoine-dagata/ |archive-date=2018-09-01 |url-status=dead }} and Atsukobarouh, Tokyo, May–July 2015.{{cite web |url=http://l-amusee.com/atsukobarouh/schedule/2014/0523.php |title=アントワーヌ・ダガタ 「抗体」 - Schedule - スケジュール - アツコバルー ATSUKOBAROUH arts drinks talk |access-date=2015-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044501/http://l-amusee.com/atsukobarouh/schedule/2014/0523.php |archive-date=2018-09-01 |url-status=dead }}
• Mark Cohen: Dark Knees (1969 - 2012), September–December 2013. Curated by Diane Dufour.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/mark-cohen-dark-knees-1969-2012/ | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Mark Cohen: Dark Knees (1969 - 2012)}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/05/07/a-conversation-about-mark-cohens-dark-knees/|title=A Conversation About Mark Cohen's Dark Knees|date=7 May 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mark-cohen-dark-knees|title = Dark Knees - Photographs by Mark Cohen}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/oct/22/mark-cohen-photographer-exhibition-paris|title = Mark Cohen: The photographer who literally shoots from the hip|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 22 October 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/|title = Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair}} Toured to Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, November 2014 – January 2015.
• Young Photographers at Le Bal, by Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Óscar Monzón, Ricardo Cases, Aleix Plademunt and Antonio M. Xoubanova, December 2013 – January 2014.
• Kourtney Roy: Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle (They Already Think I’m Crazy), April–May 2014. A series for Carte Blanche PMU 2013 (award for young photographers).PMU, Pari mutuel urbain, is the French state-controlled betting system.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/kourtney-roy/ | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Kourtney Roy: Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/09/kourtney-roy-photography-race-tracks-le-bal-paris|title=Kourtney Roy: The woman who turned empty racetracks into an artform|website=TheGuardian.com|date=9 May 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/05/06/exhibition/24839/le-bal-kourtney-roy-winner-of-the-carte-blanche-pmu-2013|title = Le BAL: Kourtney Roy, Winner|date = 7 May 2014}}
• Lewis Baltz: Common Objects, May–August 2014.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/lewis-baltz/ | accessdate = 26 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Lewis Baltz: Common Objects}}
• S’il y a Lieu je Pars Avec Vous, by Sophie Calle, Julien Magre, Stéphane Couturier, Alain Bublex and Antoine D'Agata, September–October 2014.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/sil-y-a-lieu-je-pars-avec-vous/ | accessdate = 26 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = S'il y a Lieu je Pars Avec Vous: Sophie Calle - Julien Magre - Stéphane Couturier - Alain Bublex - Antoine d'Agata}}
• Dirk Braeckman, November 2014 – January 2015.{{cite web|url=http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/dirk-braeckman/|title = LE BAL - Independent venue focusing on the image-as-document in all its forms – photography, video, film and the new media}}
• Léa Habourdin et Thibault Brunet: Les Immobiles. January 2015. A series for Carte Blanche PMU 2014 (award for young photographers).{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/exposition-en-cours/lea-habourdin-thibault-brunet/ | access-date = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Léa Habourdin et Thibault Brunet: Les Immobiles / Carte Blanche PMU 2014}}[http://odlp.co/2015/01/14/interview/26983/carte-blanche-pmu-2014-an-interview-with-lea-habourdin-and-thibault-brunet L’Oeil de la Photographie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309225344/http://odlp.co/2015/01/14/interview/26983/carte-blanche-pmu-2014-an-interview-with-lea-habourdin-and-thibault-brunet/ |date=2016-03-09 }}
• Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, January–April 2014.{{cite web|url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/ponte-city/ | access-date = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse}}
• Mark Lewis: Above and Below, February–May 2015.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/exposition-en-cours/mark-lewis/ | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Mark Lewis: Above and Below}}
• Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence, June–August 2015.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/exposition-en-cours/images-of-conviction/ | accessdate = 25 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence}}{{cite web|url=http://aperture.org/blog/report-images-conviction-le-bal-paris/|title=Images of Conviction at le Bal, Paris – Aperture NY|date=29 June 2015}} Then toured to The Photographers' Gallery, London.{{cite web |url=http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/burden-of-proof-the-construction-of-visual-evidence-4 |title=Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence {{!}} Burden of Proof {{!}} The Photographers' Gallery |website=thephotographersgallery.org.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914171045/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/burden-of-proof-the-construction-of-visual-evidence-4 |archive-date=2015-09-14|df=dmy-all}}
• Samuel Gratacap: Empire / Le Bal Award for Young Artists with ADAGP, September–October 2015. Curated by Pascal Beausse.{{cite web|url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2015/09/14/exhibition/29680/paris-empire-by-samuel-gratacap-at-le-bal|title = Paris : Empire by Samuel|date = 14 September 2015}}
• A Handful of Dust - From the Cosmic to the Domestic, by David Campany, October 2015 – January 2016.{{cite web | url = http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/a-handful-of-dust/ | accessdate = 23 October 2015 | publisher = Le Bal | title = A Handful of Dust - From the Cosmic to the Domestic | archive-date = 18 October 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151018070626/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/les-expositions/a-handful-of-dust/ | url-status = dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/handful-of-dust-from-the-cosmic-to-the-domestic |title=A Handful of Dust From the Cosmic to the Domestic - Paris Photo Agenda |website=www.parisphoto.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926054049/http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/handful-of-dust-from-the-cosmic-to-the-domestic |archive-date=2015-09-26|df=dmy-all}}
• Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960-1975, September–December 2016. Curated by Diane Dufour, Matthew Witkovsky and Duncan Forbes.{{cite web | url = http://www.le-bal.fr/en/2016/07/provoke | accessdate = 8 November 2016 | publisher = Le Bal | title = Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960-1975| date = 18 July 2016 }}

• Anonymes: L’Amérique sans nom: Photographie et Cinéma (Anonymous: Unnamed America in Photography and Film).'' Paris: Le Bal; Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. {{ISBN|978-3869302157}}. Edited by David Campany and Diane Dufour. Text by Campany. Photographs by Jeff Wall, Walker Evans, Chauncey Hare, Lewis Baltz, Standish Lawder, Sharon Lockhart, Doug Rickard, Anthony Hernandez, Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese, and Bruce Gilden. French and English.
• Les Carnets du Bal #1: L'Image-Document, Entre Réalité et Fiction. Paris: Le Bal; Marseille: Images en Manoeuvre, 2010. Texts by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Alain Bergala, Victor Burgin, David Campany, Clément Chéroux, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Georges Didi-Huberman, Johan Grimonprez, Khalil Joreige, Gilles Mouëllic, Muriel Pic, Jean-Pierre Rehm and Susan Meiselas.
• Les Carnets du Bal #2: L'Image Déjà là, Usages de l'Objet Trouvé Photographique et Cinématographique. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvres, 2011. {{ISBN|978-2849952245}}. Text in French.
• Les Carnets du Bal #3: les Images Manquantes. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvres, 2012. {{ISBN|978-2849952450}}. Text in French.
• The Makes. By Eric Baudelaire. Juxtaposes never-filmed scenarios written by Michelangelo Antonioni with anonymous photographs from post-war Japanese cinema.
• Les Carnets du Bal #4: Que Peut une Image?. By Dork Zabunyan, Diane Dufour and Christine Vidal. Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques; Paris: Le Bal; Marseille: Textuel, 2014. {{ISBN|978-2845974838}}. Text in French.
• Les Carnets du Bal #5: La Persistance des Images. Diane Dufour and Christine Vidal. Paris: Le Bal; Paris: Textuel; Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques, 2014. Text in French.
• Anticorps. By Antoine D'Agata. Madrid: Xavier Barral; Paris: Le Bal, 2013. {{ISBN|9782365110037}}. Text in French.
• Dark Knees. By Mark Cohen. Paris: Editions Xavier Barral; Paris: Le Bal, 2013. {{ISBN|978-2-365110-42-6}}.
• Ils Pensent Déjà que je Suis Folle (They Already Think I’m Crazy). By Kourtney Roy. PMU; Paris: Le Bal; Trézélan: Filigranes, 2013. {{ISBN|978-2-35046-307-0}}. For Carte Blanche PMU 2013 (award for young photographers). English and French.
• Empire. By Samuel Gratacap. Paris: Le Bal; Trézélan: Filigranes, 2015. {{ISBN|978-2-35046-372-8}}. English and French.
• Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence. Editions Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015. {{ISBN|9782365110839}}. Diane Dufour with Luce Lebart, Christian Delage and Eyal Weizman. With contributions by Jennifer L. Mnookin, Anthony Petiteau, Tomasz Kizny, Thomas Keenan, and Eric Stover. English version.
• Les Immobiles: Léa Habourdin & Thibault Brunet: Carte Blanche PMU 2014. PMU; Paris: Le Bal; Trézélan: Filigranes, 2015. {{ISBN|978-2-35046-341-4}}. French-language version.
• A Handful of Dust. By David Campany. Accompanied by an exhibition at Le Bal.
• London: Mack; Paris: Le Bal, 2015. {{ISBN|9781910164389}}. English-language version.
• Dust: Histoires de poussière: D'après Man Ray et Marcel Duchamp. London: Mack; Paris: Le Bal, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1910164488}}. French-language version.

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