France to rejoice 200 Years of Photography in 2026-2027

Mrs Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, referred to as for a terrific and festive celebration of the bicentenary of photography all through France, to honour the invention and photographic heritage for greater than a 12 months.

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce took the primary extant everlasting {photograph} which is dated 1826-1827 and which marks his invention.

Rachida Dati introduced the creation of a scientific committee which is able to help the Ministry of Culture in defining the key scientific and inventive actions for the bicentenary. It might be led by Dominique de Font-Reaulx, an artwork historian specializing within the nineteenth century and images, and a basic curator on the Louvre Museum. The scientific committee consists of recognised consultants in images and pictures: Eléonore Challine, Alexia Fabre Michel Poivert, Pierre Singaravelou, and Antonio Somaini. 

The committee will appraoch all these concerned in images, from the establishments supported by the Ministry of Culture, to skilled networks and inventive venues, with the intention to convey this pageant as shut as doable to the general public, and geographically throughout France. They will take part within the growth and implementation of a really various programme: exhibitions, screenings, publications, conferences, and so forth. Exhibitions will contribute to enriching the best way we have a look at the medium, in its heritage senses to essentially the most experimental.

Mrs. Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, commented: ‘Born in France 200 years in the past, images is now a part of our day by day lives, particularly that of younger individuals. I name on all these concerned in images to think about collectively a terrific common and festive occasion, with all audiences, all over the place in France. From daguerreotypes to selfies, the bicentenary of images is an invite to rejoice the historical past of this main artwork in France by our distinctive collections, but additionally to point out the range of essentially the most up to date creation’.

The scientific committee of the bicentenary of images famous: “The celebration of the primary {photograph} is an excellent alternative to retrace the key phases within the evolution of this artwork – from Niépce’s heliography to digital photographs – to honour its creators, from 1826 to in the present day, but additionally to convey us collectively round frequent and singular photographs. Photography has regularly change into one of the democratic inventive expressions. For 200 years, it has been writing our frequent historical past.’

Main Image: The first photograph, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ‘View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826′