Quai de la Photo is paying tribute to Kate Barry with a retrospective on the 10th anniversary of her passing in 2013, at the age of 46. This retrospective aims “to show the diversity of her work,” explains curator Sylvain Besson, whose book My Own Space (Éditions de La Martinière, 2023) gave the exhibition its name.
Category: Exhibition
End of Anoxia for the Last Objects of the World’s Oldest Photo Lab
In summer 2010, the last objects of the world’s oldest photo lab are finally on view in the Niépce House after several months of anoxia — a process that consists in destroying worms and parasites contained in the wood by means of a vacuum, without interfering with future chemical analyses.
The world’s oldest Photographic Studio and Lab
The Photographic Studio and Lab of Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855) This lab is the oldest existing we know of at present (thanks to the receipts, the chemicals can be dated back as far as 1840-41). From photography pioneers such as Niépce, Daguerre, Talbot or Bayard, no entire lab has been preserved, but individual ancient large...