DREAMS FROM AMERICA 2026 – JUST RELEASED!!!
Galerie Les Yeux Ouverts (Fontainebleau) is proud to announce a new photography book from celebrated photographer Renée Jacobs. “Dreams from America” is Jacobs’ biggest collection to date and is composed of 308 images taken mostly during the photographers’ years living in California from 2006-2016.
The book is available in a Deluxe Edition for 75€ and includes one unique, signed 4”x6” print from each of the 308 images in the book. The Limited Edition for 30€ is available without a print. The total edition is 600 and includes an introduction by Brigitte Ollier and a text by Bernard Plossu. Editor: Wendy Hicks. Order Dreams from America at: a.desachy@icloud.com
Why photograph nudes?
“Because they have always been beautiful, and one summer morning, it pleased me.”
Études de nu, Paris, 1930.
This quote from Germaine Krull (1897-1985), a committed witness of the thirties, is a good introduction to the work of Renée Jacobs
Her nudes are like pearly clouds that appear and then fade into the sky, naturally, like secret messages. With each nude, Renée Jacobs invents her freedom, reveals her desires, and claims her sexuality. One can also read in the subtext an intimate history of her photography that joins the daring women of the Belle Époque, Kiki de Montparnasse and other vagabonds ready to outwit the lensl
--Brigitte Ollier From the introduction of Dreams from America
RENÉE JACOBS' IN ITALY
dumas.salchli editions (Arles, France) 2025. Text by Véronique Bergen (French/English), 32 pages, silkscreen cover, 250 numbered copies and 20 copies not for sale. Each zine contains an original 10x15cm photograph signed by Renée Jacobs. To order please send an email to wendy@reneejacobs.com
Sophistication and simplicity, naughty elegance and erotic thirst are woven together in a scenography devoted to the contrasts and echoes between skin, clothes and stone or water ... The journey of the senses to which Renée Jacobs invites us makes us plunge into the spray of dreamlike poetry, pulsed by an erotic fire.
--Véronique Bergen, From the Introduction to “In Italy”
POLAROIDS
Galerie Edition Vevais (Berlin). 1st Prize International Photography Awards 2022. First edition 2022 and second edition 2023. Handbound hardcover book with open spine and a tipped in original photography (C-Print) on the cover. Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. Printed in 4 colors plus silver and UV varnish. 96 pages, Approx. 12 x 16 cm. To order please send an email to wendy@reneejacobs.com
“Renée Jacobs knows that eroticism does not exist without participation...Desire requires a context without which it would be neither visible nor livable. Her work participates in an evolving and democratic approach to the plurality of female sexuality and desire." --
--Gregory Forstner, from the introduction to POLAROIDS
RENÉE JACOBS' PARIS
Edition Galerie Vevais, Berlin. Editor: Alexander Scholz. Introduction: Prof. John Wood. First Edition 2013 Special Softcover with a dustjacket, B/W pictures, printed with 4 colors, 150 pages, 24 x 30 cm. Second Edition 2021 with some new pictures. Softcover with a mounted picture on the cover. B/W pictures, printed with 4 colors. Approx. 140 pages, 17 x 24 cm. Limited to only 500 signed and numbered copies. To order email wendy@reneejacobs.com
“This is a book about Paris, about passion, and about pleasure. Jacobs’ depiction of femininity is both an ancient and a modern one, of women as free spirit – as free as any man. Like Romaine Brooks, Jacobs presents formal elegance, desire, and beauty all coupled within the allure of sexual magic. The joy sings through Jacobs’ lens.”
--Professor John Wood, from the Introduction to RENÉE JACOBS' PARIS.
RÊVES DE FEMMES
Editions Bessard, Paris. Zine Collection 18 ” Reves de Femmes ” by the artist Renée Jacobs. A limited edition of 250 copies with a signed C print by the artist on Kodak Paper. Publication date: august 2014. To order email: wendy@reneejacobs.com
"Renée Jacobs' work is the result of a very personal vision and interpretation of women. The female form is her intimate sketchpad. Life is a dream and Renée treats us to exquisite images that are a magical feast for the eyes of the beholder….[With her work, you] are walking past an open door and witnessing beauty ... Apparitions and fantasies, their story is left to our imagination . . . Leafing through the pages, you become a voyeur; you experience a guilty pleasure, un léger frisson, catching a glimpse of forbidden private moments."
--Douglas & Françoise Kirkland, from the Introduction to Rêves de Femmes
WERKDRUCK No. 4
Galerie Vevais, Berlin. Editor: Jock Sturges. Book with 20 original photographs, printed on
baryta paper. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Every WERKDRUCK is
carefully printed and bound by hand, finally signed and numbered by the artist. Please allow production time for delivery. To order email info@galerievevais.de
“Renée’s pictures have a combination of intensity and honesty that I don’t often encounter… She’s making the pictures because she wants to keep them fixed in her head and heart for all time. Her models trust her to tell the truth about them. And she does . . . The truth is of course half hers, a half that is rich in admiration, and affection. For their part, the models are licensed in the moment to be – without limit or constraint. I feel distinctly privileged to present this work to you as a singular example of what can be achieved in the photographic medium…"
-Jock Sturges, from the introduction to WERKDRUCK