Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: December 19, 2010 to March 13, 2011
Location: Galerie des Bibliothèques, Ville de Paris
Street: 22 rue Malher
City/Town: 75004 Paris
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Galerie des Bibliothèques
Latest Activity: Dec 19, 2010
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The exhibition Photos Femmes Féminisme 1860-2000 is a historical journey through the photographic collection of the Marguerite Durand Library. Towards the end of the 19th century Durand, a former actress turned Journalist, started to amass an archive of photographs both from La Fronde, the daily feminist newspaper she started, and from her library which she gave to the city of Paris in 1931. Since then the collection has been added to whilst retaining its original aim, namely to showcase the activity and creativity of women and to gather documentation on feminism and the activities of its key figures. The photographic archives were not originally conceived as such, but the notion came about more recently when the status of historical photography was changing and when Simone Blanc and then Annie Metz, the library’s curators, turned their professional attention to the collection. The acquisition of more photographs became a priority, especially the work of Well-known women photographers such as Germaine Krull, Laure Albin- Guillot, Berenice Abbott, Gisèle Freund, Yvonne Chevalier, Edith Gérin, Sabine Weiss, Margaret Bourke-White, Janine Niepce, and Irina Ionesco. Documenting the feminist movement in photographs has also always remained a priority, as reflected in the impressive collection of Catherine Deudon’s photographs focusing on the French Women’s Liberation Movement (M.L.F.) Of the 4000 photographs in the archive, 220 were selected for the exhibition by Annie Metz and Florence Rochefort, a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) specializing in women and gender history. The choice of pictures was first made on aesthetic grounds, particular attention being given to the rarity of the photograph, the photographer, and the quality of the image.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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