Didier Aubert

Associate professor of American Studies

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

FR

Biography

Didier Aubert teaches American Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He is a MERA fellow at the Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion (2016-2021). His essays on photography and photojournalism across the Americas have been published in various international journals including Visual Studies, and Etudes Photographiques. He co-edited Refaire l’Amérique in 2011 and L’Amérique des Images in 2013. He is a member of Transatlantic Cultures’ editorial team.

Articles (1)

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Modernist Photography in Mexico: Modotti’s Letter

Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between foreign and national artists and writers. This “Mexican moment” of photographic modernism was shaped by left-wing politics, ideas of Mexicanidad spreading at home and abroad, and the emergence of documentary forms.