Here is the first major synthesis on worker photography. It brings together the works of immense photographers such as Jacques-André Boiffard, Chim, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, René Zuber, Eli Lotar, Willy Ronis or even Henri Cartier-Bresson alongside photos of anonymous people who denounce, comment on and recount the years 1928 to 1936 in France.
Professional photographers, members of the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (AEAR) decide to train workers to use photography to speak out about their daily lives, their living and working conditions, refusing to serve as a subject for journalists from the bourgeois classes.
Numerous documents - photomontages, illustrated magazines - rediscover the militant uses of photography. The stigma of capitalism, cobblestones of streets and the body of the worker, movements of the masses and the visible seeds of social utopias are documented here, painting the picture of the political commitment of the photographers of the interwar period.

Une exposition à la Galerie de photographies, du 07 novembre 2018 au 04 février 2019, au Centre Pompidou !