Wandering and menacing, intriguing or dubious, fascinating… there are so many representations of Gypsies throughout the history of photography. From the the inherited romantic vision of the 19th century images of an asocial and archaic people and the fascination in racist rejection, the exhibition Mondes Tsiganes (Gypsy Worlds) at the Musée de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Paris shows another view of Gypsies and helps one understand the origins of an ever-present discrimination.
With more than eight hundred photographs, the exhibition offers a double approach: an anthropological and documentary path – to understand the history of stereotypes associated with these people – and the installation of the series Les Gorgans by French photographer Mathieu Pernot, who gives a sensitive and contemporary look at a family from Arles he followed for twenty years.
Mondes Tsiganes
March 13 through August 26, 2018
Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration
293 Avenue Daumesnil
75012 Paris
France
