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16 and 17 September 2023Passed
Conditions
Free entry
September 2023
Saturday 16
13:30 - 17:30
Sunday 17
13:30 - 17:30

Musée français de la Photographie

78 rue de Paris 91570 Bièvres
  • Essonne
  • Île-de-France

Free visit of the exhibition "Guaranteed resemblance", The portrait in the collections of the French Museum of Photography

"Guaranteed resemblance"
16 and 17 September 2023Passed
Conditions
Free entry
© Conseil départemental de l'Essonne, musée français de la Photographie, Benoît Chain

"Guaranteed resemblance"

The portrait in the collections of the French Museum of Photography

“Guaranteed resemblance” is how the first portrait photographers of the 1840s, proclaiming this incomparable quality, intended to settle their score with the painters who preceded them… and who, however, often used the same selling point of their services!
The portrait is a major subject, not only in the history of photography, but in the entire history of representations. With this exhibition, from its largely unpublished collections, the French Museum of Photography proposes to meet faces who posed in front of the lens from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.
Three sections organize the exhibition. The first addresses the main functions assigned to the photographic portrait: remembering, showing oneself, putting a face on a name, collecting or documenting, from the first daguerreotypes to contemporary images. The «portrait machines» are evoked in a second space: since the very first time and still today to some extent, this field of photography justifies the use of the professional, his equipment and his specific know-how. A final room reveals how contemporary artists have decided to explore what is supposed to be a “representation of the human figure”.
If the historical contributions are present, the original scenography of the exhibition frees itself from the strict chronology to privilege the free discovery of more than 400 images and objects whose richness and diversity call for fine observation, comparisons, astonishment.

Types d'événement
Visite libre
Thèmes 2023
No selection
I agree that the image may be freely used, provided that it is attributed to the author by name and shared under the same conditions.
Conditions de participation
Gratuit
Type de public
Tout public

About the location

Musée français de la Photographie
78 rue de Paris 91570 Bièvres
  • Essonne
  • Île-de-France
Tags
Musée, salle d'exposition, Musée de France
Access
From Évry, by car: motorway A6 towards Paris, exit towards A10 - Palaiseau, continue on D444 towards Igny then Bièvres. From Paris, by car: Porte de Châtillon: N306 towards Petit Clamart, straight ahead, 9 km. Porte de Sèvres: N118 towards Chartres-Orléans, exit N°5 Bièvres. Free parking in the museum park. From Évry, by train: RER D direction Paris then, at Juvisy-sur-Orge, RER C direction Versailles-chantiers, get off at Bièvres, take bus 15 until the stop Cholette. From Paris, by train: RER C direction Versailles-Chantier, get off at Bièvres, take bus 15 until the Cholette stop. RER B direction Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuses, get off at Massy-Palaiseau. Transfer to Bièvres by RER C. Take bus 15 to the Cholette stop. By bus: line 15 departing from the Massy-Palaiseau or Bièvres train station, get off at the Cholette stop.