Contrast : Avignon through two centuries of photography

Through their choices of framing and composition, but also through their interest in the subjects captured, each photographer carries a "speech without words" about Avignon, the people who live there and their times. "Contrastes" questions Avignon's identity, playing with stereotypes, exploring the legacies and mutations of (almost) 200 years.
The exhibition focuses on the contradictions, anachronisms and antinomic compositions that emerge in the images or in the comparison of several archival photographs. With sensitivity, this visual and temporal journey reveals the plural and complex character of Avignon: a city on a human scale, inhabited and alive, the fruit of heritages, adaptations and reconciliations in the face of the tensions that run through it.

A city that delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait through its photographic history.

An archipelago exhibition
Main site: Archives municipales d'Avignon (courtyard and streets)
6 rue Saluces
But also on 6 other sites:
→ Grilles du square Agricol-Perdiguier
cours Jean-Jaurès
→ Parc de la Cantonne gates
avenue des Vertes-Rives (Montfavet)
→ Moucharabieh at the nautical stadium,
avenue Pierre-de-Coubertin
→ Grilles du palais de papes
place de l'Amirande
→ Abbaye-Saint-Ruf park gates
avenue du Moulin-Notre-Dame
→ Grilles du parc Champfleury
avenue du Blanchissage

Free admission.

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