- Opening: Thurs 02 Oct, 6pm -
- Discussion : Thurs 09 Oct, 9.30am -
- Exhibition : 02-12 Oct 2008 -

100 x FRANCE
French photography from its origins to today

at the Hanoi University of Fine Arts.

What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
- Roland Barthes

We understand the emotion felt by the world when photography was discovered in 1839. A dream come true.

The exhibition tells a story that begins officially in Paris to continue today. Each of these images is presented with a text telling the history of photography and its author, France and the French; Paris too. She especially wants to allow each of us to tell a story and discuss the history of French photography in different ways: the development of techniques and processes, themes that distinguish photography “artistic” “humanist” or “journalism” and the permanence of the relationship between photography and other arts.

Curator: Sophie Schmidt

Prints from: National Library of France,Musée d’Orsay, the Pompidou Center in Paris, National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou, Jacques Henri Lartigue Donation, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Brassai Estate, collectors, artists and their heirs.

Hanoi University of Fine Arts
42, Yet Kieu
Free Admission

L’Espace - Centre Culturel Français de Hanoi Ambassade de France au Vietnam 24, Trang Tien, Hanoi Tel: (84-4) 9 36 21 64 (poste 511) Fax: (84-4) 9 36 21 65 website