Category: photography
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Eugène Atget: 5 Unforgettable Photographs of Vanishing Paris
Eugène Atget photographed Paris for 30 years with a 19th-century view camera. See 5 key works, his style, and why the Surrealists claimed him.
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Julia Margaret Cameron: 5 Radical Portraits of Genius
Julia Margaret Cameron took up photography at 48 and made the most daring portraits of the Victorian era. See 5 key works, her soft-focus style and legacy.
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Gustave Le Gray: The Photographer Who Mastered Light and Paper
Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884) made photography an art: waxed-paper negatives, the 1851 Mission héliographique and seascapes printed from two negatives.
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William Henry Fox Talbot: The Genius Who Invented Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot invented the negative/positive process behind modern photography. Inside his calotype breakthrough, The Pencil of Nature, and his landmark images.
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The Hour Was Still Mine
Why making black and white photographs is its own reward — a photographer reflects on creative process, attention, and what the medium can truly promise.
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Enjeux contemporains de la photographie
Cette conférence, donnée à l’ETPA dans le cadre du cycle « Les Grands témoins de la photographie », présente la vision de Michel Poivert, célèbre historien de la photographie. Il y développe sa thèse sur la mutation profonde du médium photographique au tournant du XXIe siècle.  Résumé des points clés 1. L’Historien du…