Rencontres d'Arles: Nine Photobooks Honor 200 Years of Photography

Arles - 10.07.2026: The Rencontres d'Arles opened their program for the 200th birthday of photography with a clear emphasis on the photobook. Alongside exhibitions and talks, the Arles Books Fair forms the resonant space in which new releases intertwine the history and present of the medium. Nine recent titles, which the festival highlights to outline key threads, show how the history of invention continues into today's working methods and interpretations.The focus is on the "first times": early processes, apparatuses and image strategies that range from the daguerreotype to Talbot's paper ...