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Following the 2019 retrospective that presented her most iconic photographs, Polka wishes to once again pay tribute to this talented humanist photographer. Like her male peers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau or Willy Ronis, Niépce bore witness to and documented the inner working of French society over the course of the second part of the twentieth century; its roots, its history and geography, its development trajectories, its central figures and its fractures.

Contraception, equal pay, daily life during the French civil rights movement... All the aspects of the struggles for …