Eleonore Challine: The Utopias of the Photography Museum in France (1890-1945)

Eleonore Challine: The Utopias of the Photography Museum in France (1890-1945) Between the 1890s and the Second World War, a multitude of projects for photography museums came to light in Europe and more particularly in France. The aim of this article is to retrace the history of the families of photography museums and to explore the failure of these projects through the notion of utopia. Attempted typology of the forms of photography museums that sheds light on the contemporary relation of photography to the museum, this article also wants to seize the major chronological and cultural turning points of this still tittle known history for the period 1890-1945. From the beginnings of this question set Out before the First World War, follows a period of expansion between the two wars. This history conies to life around important figures, such as Leon Vidal (1833-1906), Alfred Liegard (1865-1934), Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934), Louis Cheronnet (1899-1950), as well as Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962).