General public conference on the patrimonialization of the photographic medium, the constitution of the collections from the nineteenth century and until today by Eléonore Challine, normalienne and aggregated history. If photography is almost 200 years old, the history of its recognition as heritage is much more recent and has not been obvious, far from it. From the first tremors of the medium in the late nineteenth century to the institutionalization of the 1970s and 1980s, it is on the long term that we must observe these movements and this rise in power of photographic heritage. It is not only a question of producing an institutional history but rather of studying the changing relationships that societies have with photography, From a scientific innovation to a photographic heritage that gradually constitutes a material for history.
About Eléonore Challine
Normalienne and associate of history, Eléonore Challine is a lecturer in the history of photography at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, member IUF Junior, and editor in chief of the journal Photographica (Editions de la Sorbonne). She is the author of Une histoire contrariée. Le musée de photographie en France (1839-1945), Paris, éditions macula, Collection: Transbordeur, 2017
Practical information
Saturday, September 16
18h Free entry
National Institute of Art History - Colbert Gallery
6 rue des Petits Champs 75002 Paris
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