Exhibition in Rennes: giving back to the little hands of photography their share of eternity

Special Envoy to Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)

Everything, or almost everything, has vanished. Evaporated, the Ciné-Photo of Pont-l'Abbé; closed, the Lauzanne studio in Lamballe; flew away, the Garrec workshop in Plonéour-Lanvern. Disappeared, certainly, but not forgotten. It was therefore time to draw the portrait of the photographic workshops of yesteryear.

This is what the Museum of Brittany, located on the floor of the Champs Libres in Rennes, is doing, which has plunged into the photographic collection of its collections to resurrect these craftsmen-shopkeepers of the sixth art and the anonymous operators of provincial studios.

Overwhelmed by the wave of smartphones and digital, this disappearing world dotted our streets of yesteryear with colorful signs and colorful windows. Modest country addresses with narrow entrances or prouder businesses, located at crossroads, whose gleaming storefronts rivaled those of neighborhood cinemas.

Places pass, objects remain

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