In the Studio of DATAR’S Photography Mission looks back at how important the Mission was in the careers of some of today’s leading contemporary photographers. To mark its 20th anniversary, in spring 1983 the Land Development and Regional Action Delegation, better known by its french acronym, DATAR, commissioned photographers to participate in a huge project to “record france’s 1980s landscape”. Originally planned to last just a year, the project eventually ended in 1989. Twenty-nine photographers—young or established, french or foreign—worked on the project. With the looks of fifteen photographers, the exhibition gives visitors some insight into the intricacies of the creative process during a project that has become legendary in the history of photography. it will also be an opportunity to have some of the project’s little-known images dialogue with private archives.
Raphaële Bertho and Héloïse Conésa
Raphaële Bertho is an art teacher at Université de Tours and Héloïse Conésa a curator at Bibliothèque National de France, in Paris.
In the studio of DATAR’s photography mission
Festival des Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2017
July 3 to septembre 24, 2017
Arles, France
