Pierre Bourdieu Photo Archive: Images d’Algérie, 1957–1961 In his first book Sociologie de l’Algérie (1958), Pierre Bourdieu expressed that his primary goal was to bear witness to the actual events playing out during the Algerian War of Independence in the 1950s. In an attempt to understand the crisis of Algerian society as a “social laboratory,” […]
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Pierre Bourdieu: Exhibition venues
The exchange between Camera Austria, Fondation Bourdieu and the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu between 2000 and 2002 led to a comprehensive project: he entrusted his entire archive of photographs taken during his fieldwork in Algeria between the years of 1958 and 1961, and representing, as he noted, his earliest and at the same time his […]
Pierre Bourdieu: The Exhibition
The exchange between Camera Austria, Fondation Bourdieu and the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu between 2000 and 2002 led to a comprehensive project: he entrusted his entire archive of photographs taken during his fieldwork in Algeria between the years of 1958 and 1961, and representing, as he noted, his earliest and at the same time his […]
Pierre Bourdieu: The Publication
The photographic documents by Pierre Bourdieu are above all the result of scientific work, and in this sense they must be viewed in a constructive context together with the texts that he wrote at the same time, and thus have a specific historical and thematic framework. The first task in our work, then, was to […]