Programmation

Street vendors, fairground vendors, and casual workers

Toward a History of Non-Studio Photographers—1900–1970

Recherche & création

drawing on archival, museum, anthropological, and social approaches, this one-day symposium examines the history of photography professionals who are often anonymous and have long been marginalized: itinerant photographers.

These artisan photographers, whose work began to flourish as early as 1870 on the fringes of the studios, have continually adapted to the economic and social contexts in which they operated.

Although diverse and little studied, their work has nevertheless contributed significantly to the development of self-image and to the popularization of photography.

10:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

↘︎ “Outside the Studio”: Professional Photography Practices in France (1900–1970)
Emmanuelle Fructus – Iconographer and Artist

↘︎ Speed and Slowness in the History of Street Photography: A Popular Construction of Self-Image
Ilsen About – Historian, Research Fellow at the CNRS, member of IRIS, CNRS / EHESS

↘︎ A Job for Immigrants? A Group Portrait of Foreign Street Photographers in France in the First Half of the 20th Century
Éléonore Challine, Associate Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

↘︎ A selection of acquisitions and items from the collection (photographs, postcards, glass plates, etc.) of the Museum of Textiles and Social Life at the Écomusée de l’Avesnois

2:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

↘︎ Postcard Photographers: Creation, Craftsmanship, and Business (1900–1970)
Marie-Éve Bouillon – Heritage Curator at the National Archives’ Photography Division, Ph. D. In the History of Photography

↘︎ strike Events and the Circulation of Images: The Labor Postcard in Question (1900–1914)
Maxime Boidy, Associate Professor of Visual Studies – LISAA Laboratory – Gustave Eiffel University

↘︎ Hold the newspaper while the photo is being taken
Bertrand Tillier, Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (HiCSA)

↘︎ Traveling Photography at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône: Images and Cameras
Sylvain Besson, Director of Collections at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum

↘︎ The Absence of Street Photographers in Collections of Anonymous Photographs: A Revealer of How the History of Photography Is Constructed
Rose Durr, Research Fellow and Contractual Doctoral Student (CIFRe) affiliated with the Conservation Division of the Institut pour la photographie

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