Why this photo ?

Luigi Ghirri, L’Île-Rousse, 1976. Why this photo, which doesn’t show anything decisive or noteworthy?

Joëlle Zask : “The collapse of the American farmer, by Dorothea Lange”

While going through the exhibition at Jeu de Paume (2018), one can be struck by the specific representation of the farmer which emanates from Dorothea Lange’s photographic mission for the FSA.

Dorothea Lange’s drought-abandoned house

A photograph commented by the philosopher Etienne Helmer.

Shelley Rice: Shifting Spaces, Impossible Borders. Ana Mendieta and Liliana Porter.

How Mendieta and Porter explored the interstices between fixed spaces, homelands and national identities, to invent their own country – By Shelley Rice.

Meeting Point #4 Dork Zabunyan & Pierre Alain Trévelo

It is vital to look back on Gordon Matta-Clark’s work, among other reasons, to highlight little-known facets of a shape-shifting oeuvre.

Meeting Point #3: Dork Zabunyan & Marie Voignier

Jean-François Chevrier : “Raoul Hausmann, Returns and Relevance”

“Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway” by Susan Meiselas

The caption removes any shred of doubt; on the left of the image, the passengers have been taken off the bus and lined up in front of the group of soldiers on the right: the first of them, hands on head, is being patted down by a soldier, who is then going to search the others.

Meeting Point #2 : Dork Zabunyan & Peter Szendy

Peter Szendy is “updating” current thinking about images just as, according to Flaubert, Baudelaire, “[modernised] Romanticism” in his time.

“Susan Meiselas, transmitting images” by Clara Bouveresse