Une histoire d’images – Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble

Une histoire d’images – Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble – Through more than 500 images by photographers including Jane Evelyn Atwood, Sammy Baloji, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Luc Delahaye, Dorothea Lange, Martin Parr and Wiktoria Wojciechowska, this book confronts some of the most significant events in recent history, revealing the decisive role played by photography in shaping our perceptions.

From the struggle for civil rights to geopolitical upheavals, from technological advances to major cultural movements, via the daily lives of strangers – sometimes violent, sometimes poetic – each image poignantly, even tragically, reveals the destiny of a humanity grappling with the inexorable march of a History that often overtakes or crushes it.

Published to coincide with the exhibition of the Antoine de Galbert donation at the Musée de Grenoble, this catalog offers an impressive panorama of our times and the decisive role played by photography in shaping our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.