Photographier le Grand Paris
Une histoire visuelle du changement métropolitain
Putting the metropolis into images, capturing the dynamics of time acting on space, capturing what is in motion, multiform, immense...
It is impossible to understand the history of a metropolis without understanding the images it has produced, and the various ways in which they have been created, interpreted, mediatised and preserved. This is the premise of Photographier le Grand Paris, a comparative history of metropolises that sheds light on the visual history of cities as diverse as Chicago, Brussels, Montreal and Paris.
Situated at the crossroads of several facets of urban history, the 13 studies that constitue the book contribute to a history of the photography of metropolitan change while questioning the figurability of a metropolis in perpetual evolution.
During the presentation, Raphaële Bertho, Sonia Keravel, Frédéric Pousin, Nathalie Roseau and Ursula Wieser Benedetti will shed light onto the genesis of the book and the many questions it raises. The evening will also provide an opportunity to open the debate on the role of images in a time when their vertiginous multiplication influences, more than ever before, the way we view the object ‘metropolis’.
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Edited by Raphaële Bertho, Sonia Keravel, Frédéric Pousin and Nathalie Roseau
Raphaële Bertho is a historian of photography, an exhibition curator and a lecturer in art at the University of Tours.
Sonia Keravel is a landscape architect and lecturer in the theory and practice of landscape architecture at the École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles-Marseille.
Frédéric Pousin is an architect and emeritus research director at the CNRS's research unit Architecture, urbanisme, société : savoirs, enseignement, recherche.
Nathalie Roseau is an architect and urban planner, professor at the École des Ponts ParisTech and director of research at the Techniques, territoires et sociétés research laboratory.
