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In the Eye of the State: Institutional Photographs from Vienne
Culture · Tuesday, October 27 · 09:00 · Poitiers
30 rue des Champs-Balais 86000 Poitiers
What does the state see when it looks? In the 19th century, the state discovers a new tool to document its action: photography. Roads cut off by floods, surveillance of populations, class photographs, portraits of firefighters, heritage surveys or projections of future developments... Administrative services seize this device early to fix the moment, prove a fact, justify works or keep a record for the future. For two hundred years, this institutional photography, made up of thousands of images filed and stamped in technical dossiers, …
