EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Founded in 1960, the French Museum of Photography in Bievres became the first museum in France to specialize in the art and medium of photography. Today, it boasts a collection of 15,000 cameras and tens of thousands of original prints and photographic equipment. The “Exhibition of the French Museum of Photography in Bievres: Conqueror of Images” featured some 130 items to premiere outside of France, including 50 daguerreotype pictures—the world’s first photographic imaging process—and related equipment. It also exhibited landscape shots of 19th-century Paris, portraits and the works by such pioneering French photographers as Félix Nadar and Eugène Atget.