EVENT — During Paris Photo 2024, on Saturday November 9, we will be participating in the "Classic Photography" tabletop fair organized at the Pavillon Wagram by Barnabé Moinard/24.39. There will be over 40 exhibitors presenting a varied selection of 19th and 20th century photographs. Address: 47 avenue de Wagram, 75017 Paris. Hours: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Free entrance. We hope to see you there!

October 29, 2024
 
Exhibition — Starting today at MuMa in Le Havre, discover the exhibition on early photography in Normandy. It’s been in preparation for several years, with wonderful results including daguerreotypes by Hippolyte Fizeau and John Ruskin and prints by Humbert de Molard and Hippolyte Bayard, alongside a selection of Impressionist paintings. We're honored to have three photographs from our collection among the works selected. Until 22 September.

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May 25, 2024
 
Exhibition — Today is the opening in Deauville of the exhibition “Le sport, pour la beauté du geste,” with artworks and documents exploring the aesthetics of gesture in sports. Three of our nineteenth-century photographs of samurai are on view in the section on archery. Through May 12.

PHOTOS

January 27, 2024
 
EVENT — Barcelona friends, on Thursday 26 October, feel free to stop by the Art Photo BCN festival. I’ll be participating in the round table “Private Collecting” at 7 p.m. It would be a pleasure to see you there.

October 23, 2023
 
Publication — I am pleased to announce the publication my text dedicated to the work of Alexine Tinne in the catalog of the exhibition “Ouvrir l’album du monde” at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. It is the result of many years of research on a series of anonymous photographs taken in Upper Egypt and Sudan circa 1860, and which I show to be the previously unidentified work of this famous traveler.

“Alexine Tinne (1835-1869), une photographe au cœur de l’Afrique,” in Christine Barthe et Annabelle Lacour, eds., Mondes photographiques, histoires des débuts (Paris: Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac / Actes Sud, 2023), p. 142–147, 389 (in French).

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April 11, 2023
 
Exhibition — At the exhibition “Ouvrir l’album du monde”, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 4 April – 2 July 2023, discover several works from my collection, including beautiful panoramas of Nagasaki, Bangkok, Canton and Foochow from the 1860s.

PHOTOS

April 4, 2023
 
ExhibitionAt the beautiful exhibition “Flou: une histoire photographique” curated by Pauline Martin at the Photo Élysée in Lausanne (through May 21), find several works from my collection illustrating the ambivalence of blur in 19th-century photography. If you can’t make it to Lausanne, the catalog is a pleasure as well.

PHOTOS

March 3, 2023
 
Publication — My new book Voyages en photographie is finally here! It will be a pleasure to share it with you when we next meet.

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July 20, 2022