French photographer active in the years 1950–1970, Gilles Ehrmann leads a double practice of photographic report and publishing. Close to the literary and artistic background, his practice linked with poetic exchanges whose exhibition catalogs bear witness (Rencontre avec Ghérasim Luca, 1952). His encounter with architecture was made with André Bloc, Claude Parent, whose projects he documented since the 1960s, and André Jacqmain, of which he was the official photographer. He regularly collaborates with the Journées Aujourd’hui and Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. At the same time, from 1958, he worked with the monthly magazine Réalités (La Jalousie in 1958, The Europeans and Republic of Guinea in 1959, La Chance and La Prison in 1960, La Mère de famille and Histoire d’une rivière in 1961). In 1963, he was awarded the Nadar Prize for the best photography book of the year with Les Inspirés and their home, prefaced by André Breton.
