21 October 2008 - 20 December 2008

What is the documentary value of a photographic image? How does it relate to reality? Is it objective? Can it be used to write history? To what extent is it an indispensable research tool? To try and answer these questions, the curators of this exhibition have put together an overview of 20th century photography, drawing from the collections of the Musée d'histoire contemporaine (Museum of Contemporary History). As well as mostly anonymous images from the historic collections, the exhibition includes a corpus of photographs by artist-photographers who look at current affairs in a different way and challenge concepts of reality and objectivity.

Photographs by: Vladimir Ablamsky, Olivier Aubert, Laurence Bagot, Jean-Christophe Ballot, Emmanuelle Barbaras, Patrick Bard, Jacques Barthelemy, Michelle Blambert, Anatoly Bobrovitch, Thérèse Bonney, Frédéric Bouchery, Anne-Françoise Brillot, Laurence Brun, Thierry Chantegret, Anne Delassus, Catherine Deudon, Jean-Francis Fernandes, Florisa, Lily Franey, Jean-Claude Gautrand, René Gendre, Jean-Claude, Gisbert, Jacques Grison, Guy Hersant, Elie Kagan, Georgi Lazarevski, Noël Le Boyer, Loïc Le Loet, Pedro Lombardi, Marcel-Arthaud, Yan Morvan, Marie-Paule Nègre, Janine Niepce, France Parisy-Vinchon, Olivier Pasquiers, Picto Angelico (Paul Dubois), Julia Pirotte, Bernard Plossu, Jean Pottier, Daniel Real, Leni Riefenstahl, Isabelle Rozenbaum, Jacqueline Salmon, Marian Schmidt, Marie-Françoise Sens, Jean-Gabriel Seruzier, Tofik Shakhverdiev, Christophe Smets
Dragan Tomitch, François Tuefferd, Tony Vaccaro, Jean Villiers, Cuchi White.

Curated by Thérèse Blondet-Bisch and Thomas Michael Gunther
Catalogue published by Créaphis.

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