Resumen de Gilles Caron, auteur photographe dans les années 1960?
Beginning in France in the 1970s, the attribution or non attribution of the status of author in photoreportage did not constitute a judgment of value as much as the definition of a practice. The criteria defining the photographer as author in the cultural field was based on a form of contemporaneousness of the production and on the adaptation to the evolution of the institutional legitimacy of the photographs. Can this process of "authorification" be applied to Gilles Caron, photoreporter consecrated during his lifetime, but whose production ended with his death in 1970? Having disappeared at the very moment that his consecration was beginning to take place, what stares can then be accorded to the photographer?
