Quentin Bajac, Head Curator of the Photography Department of the Pompidou Center wrote an essay entitled “The long walk” that covers the recognition of photography in France between the two World Wars.
“The acknowledgement of photography as an artistic discipline was slow to take hold in France. Until the beginning of the 1970s, photography was, like printmaking, the prerogative of libraries, above all the Bibliothèque Nationale, whose printmaking department had been active since the end of the war under the direction of Jean Adémnar, aided by the contributions of the archivist Jean Prinet of the Musée des Arts et Métiers.”
You can read the full text on the French version of La Lettre.
You can read the full text on the French version of La Lettre.
