Fabre, Maxime

The exclusion of press photography from digital exhibition methods: Paris Match and AFP on Instagram - 2018.


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This article outlines the transformation of digital press photography through an analysis of the Agence France-Presse and Paris Match Instagram pages. By using a communicational approach to the concept of the “banal,” the author conceptualizes digital press photography as an issue of complex eco-semiotics, where digital devices and media industries jointly establish a space for the circulation and crossing of photographs.