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My favorite toy

19/01/2026

My favorite toy

51 people, children, women and men of all ages, living in one of the 17 communes of the Pays de l’Enfant, accepted to pose with a toy that matters in their daily lives or is deeply rooted in their memory. This order to the photographer Hervé PLUMET makes perfect sense as part of the first exhibition of the renovated museum. It makes the inhabitants of JURA SUD enter its territory; a territory marked for generations by toy manufacturing and its industrial development.

For several weeks, between November 2011 and march 2012, Hervé PLUMET went to meet these people to discover and share for a few hours, their daily life and their memories. Calling on the intuition, the game and the improvisation, the photographer distances himself from a purely documentary content. These poetic portraits, funny or strange, mixing nature and staging, transport the viewer in the amazing world of childhood. Time seems to be abolished, models have no age, the gap between generations disappears. Dolls, marbles, trains, marionettes, bicycle, rocking horse, card or building games open us the doors of dream and remind us that toys are fundamental to our development.

BIOGRAPHY OF HERVE PLUMET
Born at Grenoble in 1962. After studying applied arts in Lyon, he began a career in advertising creation that led him to Paris. He now lives in Cachan, a suburb of Paris. Filmmaker and photographer, he mainly works in the field of advertising and cultural communication. He has collaborated on several books: « Mes familiers » by Françoise Pétrovitch, texts Mc. Gayfier, photographs Hervé Plumet, Sémoise Edtion, Frac d’Alsace, 2004; « La fête immobile », text Eric Pessan, photographs Hervé Plumet, Arles, 2010; « Ne bouge pas poupée » by Françoise Pétrovitch, novel Eric Pessan, photographs Hervé Plumet, Edition CIAV Mesenthal, 2008.