Rurality(s) Exhibition: the Departmental Photographic Collection

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From October 10, 2026 to March 21, 2027. Two hundred years ago, in Burgundy, a new image was born, regarded as the first photograph: View from Gras by Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833). We must measure what the persistent ingenuity of Niépce has had on our lives, at a time when we constantly capture images with our mobile phones. The first photograph was therefore a landscape, seen from a window, fixed on a tin plate. In the Gers, the rural landscape is at the heart of our…