Les archives photographiques de la guerre des années 1990. Une approche par l’ethnographie

• Main Author: Awel Haouati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM) 2020-04-01
• Series: Continents manuscrits
• Subjects: Algeria; 1990s; war; conflict; violence; photography; photojournalism; archives; press; past in the present; Algeria; archives; photographic archives; photographic heritage; photography ; archive ; violence ; memory ; Algeria ; art
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/coma/5539

The article examines the photographic archives of the 1990s conflict in Algeria. Based on an ethnography carried out in the present, it traces the trajectory of photographs produced by press photographers in the 1990s, and questions the place they occupy today, both as material objects and images. Questioning the notion of archive(s) in the Algerian context, the article attempts to describe the contexts and practices that have helped shape these photographs over time, focusing on the images and their relationships to the actors.