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AFP, a photo epic: a sensitive journal of history through 120 years of silver archives.
POIVERT Michel (preface) and other authors.

AFP, a photo epic: a sensitive journal of history through 120 years of silver archives.

AFP / Fisheye
€45,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 30374
Format 19.5 x 28
Détails 348 p., numerous black and white photographs, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9791097326135
After a tireless search through the approximately 6 million film photographs produced by Agence France-Presse throughout its history (starting with the creation of the Havas agency in 1835, which became AFP in 1944), Marielle Eudes, director of special photo projects at AFP, and Christophe Calais, the project's editorial manager, offer us a largely unpublished historical and photographic fresco. Having slipped under the radar of the news that had to be provided urgently, the images they unearthed – thanks to the complicity of the institution's Documentation department and the expertise of its photo lab – take us on a journey through time like "time capsules," to quote Michel Poivert, the photography historian who wrote the preface to the book. Questioning the French touch of the agency's reporters, the latter questions the legacy of humanist photography that the authors sublimate by combining it with the culture of current events. The approximately 300 photos collected together form an “immediate collective memory that resonates with each of us,” Marielle Eudes continues.
After a tireless search through the approximately 6 million film photographs produced by Agence France-Presse throughout its history (starting with the creation of the Havas agency in 1835, which became AFP in 1944), Marielle Eudes, director of special photo projects at AFP, and Christophe Calais, the project's editorial manager, offer us a largely unpublished historical and photographic fresco. Having slipped under the radar of the news that had to be provided urgently, the images they unearthed – thanks to the complicity of the institution's Documentation department and the expertise of its photo lab – take us on a journey through time like "time capsules," to quote Michel Poivert, the photography historian who wrote the preface to the book. Questioning the French touch of the agency's reporters, the latter questions the legacy of humanist photography that the authors sublimate by combining it with the culture of current events. The approximately 300 photos collected together form an “immediate collective memory that resonates with each of us,” Marielle Eudes continues.