A wind of nostalgia is blowing on the popular pavilion, in Montpellier (Hérault). This temple of photography invites its visitors to explore the 1970s and 1980s, through some 240 shots by the greatest French artists, from 1968 to 1989.
This exhibition, called “Metamorphosis”, shows a world in the grip of social, political and cultural upheavals. We discover incredible photographs of the events of May 1968, but also scenes of daily life, in particular of the young people of the time, leather jackets and cigarettes in their mouths.
“This period of French photography is absolutely essential, and there has never been an exhibition on it,” says Gilles Mora, the director of the People’s Pavilion. I told myself that we had a duty to do it. In “Metamorphosis”, it is a question, continues this photography specialist, “of May 1968, social crises, the rise of feminism, the appearance of the sexualized body… On the ecological level, we see how the landscape transforms, how it is led to degrade. The exhibition is to be discovered urgently, until January 15, in Montpellier.
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