Clara Bouveresse

Associate professor

Evry/Paris Saclay

FR

Biografia

Clara Bouveresse is an associate professor at the University of Evry and a photography specialist. She published in 2017 a History of Magnum Photos, based on her PhD dissertation. In 2019, she curated the exhibition Unretouched Women. Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman, Susan Meiselas at the Rencontres d'Arles, with an exhibition catalogue published by Actes Sud. She also published in the Photo File collection (Actes Sud, Thames and Hudson) the three volumes dedicated to women photographers.

Artigos (3)

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Écrire l’histoire des femmes et de la photographie dans l’espace atlantique

Les femmes ont contribué à façonner l’histoire de la photographie et de ses circulations transatlantiques depuis les débuts du medium. Écrire cette histoire du point de vue des femmes invite à déplacer notre regard et nos cadres de lecture pour mettre en lumière leurs rôles de passeuses à la croisée des scènes culturelles.

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Photographic Agencies

Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of illustrated magazines. They operated at an international level, selling images around the world and establishing contacts with partnering agencies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s to the 1980s, focusing on the character of Robert Capa, a founding member of Magnum Photos, on the debates within this cooperative, and on Robert Frank’s 1958 seminal opus, The Americans.