until Monday February 04 2019

Centre Pompidou
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place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
France

This exhibition, compiled from the photographic collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, is the result of a close scientific collaboration lasting almost three years and involving the young researchers of Labex Arts-H2H and the museum’s own photography studio. As a result of their work, the aim of which was to identify and contextualise the social photographs in the Christian Bouqueret collection (comprising some 7,000 shots) acquired in 2011, a gap has been filled in the history of photography in France between the wars. The project therefore sets to one side the repertoire of the Popular Front and the icons of the Spanish Civil War, which, even today, form most people’s ideas of what the situation was like at the time. The period that preceded these two seminal moments of that decade is a veritable hothouse, from a social and activity point of view, and its history remains to be written.