Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

Kathrin Yacavone researches and teaches in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany. She is a media studies scholar and photography theorist with a particular interest in cross-media phenomena, including in photography and literature. She is the author of Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography (Continuum, 2012), co-editor of Die Fotografie und ihre Institutionen (Photography’s Institutionalization) (Reimer, 2024), and editor of five special journal issues on topics such as collaborative authorship, the history and aesthetics of photoalbums, contemporary photography in France, and nineteenth-century portraiture. Her current research project concerns the cultural impact of generative AI in relation to the aesthetic category of style.

• Introduction: Mapping Photography in French and Francophone Cultures, KATHRIN YACAVONE; The Cultural Institutionalization of Photography in France: A Brief History, KATHRIN YACAVONE; « Un courant commençait à se dessiner… »: entretien avec Jean-Luc Monterosso, PROPOS RECUEILLIS PAR KATHRIN YACAVONE; La Photographie plasticienne: une question française?, MAGALI NACHTERGAEL; The Spaces of Containment: Valérie Jouve’s Urban Portraits, OLGA SMITH; Not Yet Fallen: Memory, Trace and Time in Stéphane Couturier’s City Photography, SHIRLEY JORDAN ; La Carte et le territoire: Mapping, Photography and the Visualization of Contemporary France, EDWARD WELCH; Retour/détour: Bruno Boudjelal’s Jours intranquilles, AMANDA CRAWLEY JACKSON; De la « notation » à la « fictionalisation » de la vie: panorama des tendances photobiographiques dans la littérature française des années 1970 à nos jours, FABIEN ARRIBERT-NARCE; Annie Ernaux, 1989: Diaries, Photographic Writing and Self-Vivisection, AKANE KAWAKAMI

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