What is a first image? Proof? A test? A feat? A failure? An event? A memory? Or perhaps a trigger? A playful and erudite journey through two hundred years of major and minor photographic innovations, the exhibition brings together a collection of "firsts."
Snapshots, scoops, never-before-seen images, unpublished photos, the first photo taken, front-page images, the oldest images, and more—these "firsts" are technical, aesthetic, scientific, and societal, ranging from the early experiments of pioneers to recent images of star births in the early universe, including the first photographs transmitted over a distance, the first performance image, the first photography book, not forgetting snapshots from the first day of school or even the first "louse" in the history of photography.
At the heart of the exhibition, iconic photographers share their "first photo" through images, and, through them, their encounter with photography. We will discover the first attempts and first photographs of Bernard Plossu, Édouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vinca Petersen and Martin Parr.
Curator
Luce Lebart
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