Running from November 7, 2018 to February 4, 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, theexhibition " Photographie, arme de classe " sheds new light on the social and documentary photography emerging in France in the early 1930s.
The title, " Photographie, arme de classe " (" Photography, a class weapon"), is a nod to the manifesto text by journalist Henri Tracol, intended to federate the photographic section of the Association des écrivains et artistes révolutionnaires ("Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists") founded in Paris in 1932, against a backdrop of rising political, economic and social tensions.
At the Centre Pompidou, over 100 photographs and some 40 documents provide a panorama of the period's committed photography, as well as formal series, in France with the Popular Front and in Europe, notably in Spain. Whether criticizing poverty or reporting on the class struggle, many of the greatest names in modern photography chronicled the social events of 1928 to 1936.
Willy Ronis, Eli Lotar, Nora Dumas, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Germaine Krull, Gisèle Freund, Lisette Model, many of them used new photographic processes to raise social awareness of the misery in the capital in the early 1930s, as illustrated by Ilya Ehrenbourg.
Dates and Opening Time
From November 7, 2018 to February 4, 2019
Location
Center Pompidou
centre pompidou
75004 Paris 4
Access
Metro line 11 "Rambuteau" station
Prices
Free
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opening hours: 11am-9pm, closed Tuesdays
