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- 06 -162015

Exhibition “Images of Conviction. The Construction of Visual Evidence” in Paris

Images of Conviction. The Construction of Visual Evidence, he first exhibition organized at LE BAL, addresses both photography and the objectivity attributed to it. Ever since the invention of “metric” photography by Alphonse Bertillon at the beginning of the 20th Century to the present day, images are produced, used and analysed by both experts and researchers in order to enhance their evidentiary character.

North of Thiepval, 10/5/1916, 3/7/1916 © Paris - Musée de l'Armée, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Marie Bour

Through these eleven case studies, the exhibition focuses on the analysis of the scientific and historical concept and purpose in which the images appeared. In this exhibition, the musée de l’Armée proposes to provide suggested lines of questioning regarding the role of images and their power in telling a true and unbiased story by presenting a set of aerial photographs taken during the First World War, showing the same place photographed before and after bombing, such as in Douaumont, Verdun and Ypres in 1916, a time during which photography was used as a tool for marking ground targets (before the attack) and as means of verification of the destruction of these objectives (after the attack).

Épreuve gélatino-argentique de "Mouquet Farm" en 1916 © Paris - Musée de l'Armée, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Marie Bour

The exhibition is open until 30 August 2015. Then, it will be presented at The Photographers’ Gallery in London (Autumn 2015) and the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam (Spring 2016).

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