Heba Y. Amin at Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (04/04/2023)


The exhibition Photographs: An Early Album of the World (1842-1911) take place  at Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris from April 4 to July 2, 2023. Starting from the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac’s photograph collection, completed by exceptional loans from public and private collections, the exhibition considers the routes and the dissemination of photography outside Europe in the 19th century. Through a selection of photographs produced between 1842 and 1911 in Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, it aims to understand better the development and the different appropriations of the medium locally by bringing to light les well-known photographs, patrons, phenomena and forms of photography in different parts of the world. An attempt to rebalance the history of photography, too often centred on Europe and the United States.


https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/at-the-museum/exhibitions/event-details/e/ouvrir-lalbum-du-monde

Image: Heba Y. Amin, Windows on the West, 2019. Photo credit: Chroma