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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A Vevey pour le vernissage de notre exposition "Flash! Petite histoire de la photographie allumée" sous un grand soleil. A voir au musée de l'appareil photographique jusqu'en février www.cameramuseum.ch/evenement/fl...

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Strange echoes of catastrophic post WW1 experiments in 2025. Recently remembered this 1916 map by the infamous Mark Sykes who literally located "region like parts (...) of the Riviera, fit for European colonization" in the Ottoman Empire. Imperial imagination is all about endless recycling

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Between Kneecap and Fontaines DC performances, thoroughly enjoying Rock en Seine this evening!

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

📸"Flash! Petite histoire de la photo allumée" ( curated by P. Martin, E. de Larminat and yours truly) will open on Sept 9 at the Musée de l'appareil photographique in Vevey! A collab with Photographica: n.11 (on Flash obv) will be launched at the museum on Nov.20 www.cameramuseum.ch/evenement/fl...

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

📸L'expo "Flash! Petite histoire de la photo allumée" (commissariat: P. Martin, E. de Larminat et D. Foliard) ouvrira le 18/09 au musée de l'appareil photographique de Vevey! En collab avec Photographica: le n.11 (Aveugler pour voir) sera lancé au musée le 20/11 www.cameramuseum.ch/evenement/fl...

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"impasse de la photographie", cool postcard found par John Erik Hansson

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Non loin de la Sixtine, sur l'un des plafonds des galeries vaticanes, naissance d'une nouvelle image au milieu des autres arts: un appareil photographique porté par un angelot

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Salle des rêves dans l'incroyable palais Farnese de Caprarola.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Last day of the amazing "Encoding the Image" conference at TMU/Image Centre in Toronto under the snow! theimagecentre.ca/symposium/im...

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Une lecture recommandée: le dernier livre d'Omar El Akkad.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We have restored one and, in the process, we think we have identified the sturdy guy holding the plans of the fake Egyptian temple: Mariette Pacha himself.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Look what I just bought for my lab @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social: pristine stereoscope loaded with views of the 1867 Paris universal exhibition! Part of a project with the EM+ lab (EPFL). Here a view of the American section when the US gov (a long time ago) was trying to make friends with Europe.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Heureux d'annoncer la publication (14/03) de Passés contestés et présents numériques (Le Bord de l'Eau) avec J. Schuh pour la coll. UDPN dirigée par M. Beugnet et B. Bohet. On y explore la digitalisation des traces photographiques des histoires meurtries. On l'a voulu très accessible. Bonne lecture!

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Rare early views of Hawaii (1860s, probably/mostly H. Chase studio) from Charles de Varigny's own albums (in private hands with his diaries). De Varigny befriended King Kamehameha V and became Hawaii's Minister for Foreign Affairs (1865). Hopelessly hoping for enough research time to work on it...

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another release from the History of Photography special issue co-edited with Sean Willcock. Pierre Schill's take on the global circulations of photos of the Shar al-Shatt massacre (Oct. 1911, Tripoli). A timely piece on wars of images in colonial contexts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Photographic coverage of the Shar al-Shatt massacre and its aftermath: Circulation of the most widely distributed photograph by each of the 3 leading agencies. Rights: Pierre Schill

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you are interested in the history of photography and do not know about Photographica, you should! Last issue on decentered histories of early photo with great authors (Olubukola Gbadegesin, Ece Zerman and many others). Free access here: journals.openedition.org/photographica/

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Le projet HighVision qui vise à numériser et exploiter de vastes fonds d'archives d'agences de presse pionnières commence en jan. 2025. Appliquant les ressources de la vision automatique, il porte notamment sur le riche fonds Forbin: scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/projects/ANR...

Envelope sent by the Hearst photo agency to Victor Forbin on 19/11/1909. It contained photos that Forbin would sell back to the European press. SHD Vincennes

A retouched photographic print showing a portrait of Abdelkrim posing for the international press during the Rif War (1924-1925), collection Forbin, service historique de la défense (Vincennes, France), GR2K247/Maroc

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Rdv le 20 novembre pour une séance autour du travail de Léonel Noubou Nouwone sur les usages de la photographie lors de la guerre de décolonisation du Cameroun. Inscriptions: forms.gle/GjuzhL1m3owT....

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

My lab found and bought some of the original glass stereoviews. The optical device is gone in part but it must be somewhere in the Archives Nationales. There was also this massive bird's eye view in one of the staircases. The Soubise hotel was renovated in 1868/69 by Napoleon IIi so it makes sense.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I have been working on a research project on the 1867 universal exhibition for a while: this geeky feeling when you know you've accidentally found a precious relic hidden somewhere in the Hotel de Soubise in Paris. Hope to be able to show them in an exhibition...

Original Leon and Levy stereoscopes used for the 1867 Paris universal exhibition, Archives Nationales

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

C'est parti pour une délégation CNRS (laboratoire In Visu/INHA). Très heureux de rejoindre cette belle équipe pour quelques mois avec de beaux projets en vue. More soon!

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

Beautiful installation by Hawaf Collective at the Palais de Tokyo. A museum in the clouds above Gaza. One of the artists, Mohammad Sami Qreqe’,was killed by the IDF in the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City in Oct 2023 at 24.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Encore quelques semaines pour nous envoyer vos propositions en vue de la conférence sur le Flash que nous organisons en octobre prochain à la BNF (sfp.asso.fr/index.php/ph...). Keynote par saradominici.bsky.social et un débat de clôture organisé par Audrey Sands. Save the date!

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

A reminder that you can still send us your proposals (in French or English) for our upcoming conference on Flash photography (sfp.asso.fr/index.php/ph...) to be held in Paris this October. With keynote by saradominici.bsky.social and a panel organized by Audrey Sands. Looking forward to this!

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Journée d'études "Guerre et dessin" à l'Université de Grenoble ce mercredi 20 mars. Organisée par Sylvain Venayre. J'y parlerai du panorama de la prise de Tananarive réalisé par L. Tinayre pour l'expo de 1900. Passez nous voir!

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Amazing time at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale/ Napoli with great students. Took time to visit St Thomas Aquinas's cell where he wrote some of the 8.5 million written words he squeezed out of his brain in his lifetime. Vaguely hoping that gazing at his humerus will help me finish my next article.

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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Reflecting on the potential colourisation of stereoviews of the 1867 Paris exhibition since DeOldify and other solutions hallucinate colours (collodion loves UV+blue, but red not so much). Here is a tinted stereoview published at the time. Food for thought on authenticity (+ on how to scan those!)

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