Exposition photos "Un sentiment véritable" - Mathieu Bernard-Reymond

"Press the button, we do the rest" was the famous Kodak slogan back in 1888. Driven by industry, the camera was very early on presented to our ancestors as this miraculous machine to which to surrender. Relying on the argument of ease of use, photography was guaranteed to be a huge public success from the outset, and those who claimed to be doing something with such a machine would be viewed with tenacious suspicion.
It was at a time when photography was entering its digital era that the...