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Conference: Amateur photography practices in working-class environments
Culture · Tuesday, November 24 · 18:00 · Nantes
Archives Départementales de Loire-Atlantique, 6 Rue de Bouillé
Free
By Séverine Misset, senior lecturer at Nantes University and president of the Centre d’histoire du travail. While popular writing practices are increasingly studied, few works focus on photographs of the popular worlds and on their lay or amateur producers. Based on a study of these individuals through long biographical interviews, the conference will revisit various dimensions of this photographic practice in the popular worlds. It will aim to map the social trajectories of these amateur photographers from the popular worlds, their…
