Musée d’Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d’Honneur – 75007 – Paris
01 40 49 48 14
www.musee-orsay.fr

Musée de l’Orangerie
Place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuileries – 75001 Paris
01 44 50 43 00
www.musee-orangerie.fr

Qui a peur des femmes photographes ? 1839-1945
14 October 2015 – 24 January 2016

FIRST PART : 1839-1919 – MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE / SECOND PART : 1918-1945 – MUSÉE D’ORSAY

The primary aim of the show « Qui a peur des femmes photographes ? » [Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers?] presented jointly in the Musée de l’Orangerie and in the Musée d’Orsay from 14 October 2015 to 24 January 2016, is to break free from the still widely shared idea according to which photography, a mechanical/chemical tool to reproduce reality would be a mere technical object and as such a business for males only. Indeed, women, as amateurs from mid-upper class or as more and more often at the turning of 19th and 20th century professionals, have played a more important part in the history of photrography than they have in that of the traditional Fine Arts. Builds on new researches and numerous histories of photography that, over forty years have reassessed contribution, this exhibition is the first in France to explore the phenomenon through its manifestations in Europe as far as United States over a century.