- There is no blockbuster exhibition
- Lee Miller's Ok but not such a big name
- HCB in America hardly his best work (maybe also loosely related to MdlP)
- Sarah Moon - somebody explain why this is considered one of MdlP top exhibitions
- Many exhibitions hardly correspond to the theme "European photography tradition and transformation", actually rather to American Photography (BNF, Evans, Miller)
- I don't really see anything major or really representing the status of the European cultural production - except for the Dusseldorf gang, who are really establishment now. Add to this a small selection (4) of "Helsinki school" representatives
- The foreign countries cultural center's fare is a bit of a sideshow - maybe the most interesting is the Slovak one
- The MdlP has been trapped by the concomitant French EU Presidency. Hence desperate attempts to link the programme to vague concepts of changing European identities and frontiers disappearing
- The rest is commercial photography with the usual array of minor photo reporters, publicity and fashion photographers or government sponsored
- BNF 70's- nice and well presented, draws from BNF collection and is assembled to illustrate some themes like street photo, snapshot, etc. Also Beaubourg's on experimental photography draws from its collections
- Crypto/sub theme 1 - the 30's-40's (Miller's war works, Solomon, Bishof, parts of BDIC at Invalides, 30's satirical photomontages, maybe also the Kristallnacht exhibition at the Shoah memorial)
- Crypto/sub theme 2 - travel and landscape photography
- Crypto/sub theme 3 - Cityscapes and urbanism
- Lee Miller's Ok but not such a big name
- HCB in America hardly his best work (maybe also loosely related to MdlP)
- Sarah Moon - somebody explain why this is considered one of MdlP top exhibitions
- Many exhibitions hardly correspond to the theme "European photography tradition and transformation", actually rather to American Photography (BNF, Evans, Miller)
- I don't really see anything major or really representing the status of the European cultural production - except for the Dusseldorf gang, who are really establishment now. Add to this a small selection (4) of "Helsinki school" representatives
- The foreign countries cultural center's fare is a bit of a sideshow - maybe the most interesting is the Slovak one
- The MdlP has been trapped by the concomitant French EU Presidency. Hence desperate attempts to link the programme to vague concepts of changing European identities and frontiers disappearing
- The rest is commercial photography with the usual array of minor photo reporters, publicity and fashion photographers or government sponsored
- BNF 70's- nice and well presented, draws from BNF collection and is assembled to illustrate some themes like street photo, snapshot, etc. Also Beaubourg's on experimental photography draws from its collections
- Crypto/sub theme 1 - the 30's-40's (Miller's war works, Solomon, Bishof, parts of BDIC at Invalides, 30's satirical photomontages, maybe also the Kristallnacht exhibition at the Shoah memorial)
- Crypto/sub theme 2 - travel and landscape photography
- Crypto/sub theme 3 - Cityscapes and urbanism
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