Les archives photographiques de presse aux Archives nationales : un patrimoine adventice ?

Abstract

The French National Archives today holds five collections of press photographs coming from agencies and newspapers. These collections arrived at the Archives as a result of a new policy of safeguarding press archives, initiated from the 1950s by the French National Archives, the National Library and the French Press Institute. Other papers came from the SNEP, the national society of press enterprises which was a public body responsible for the management of press properties confiscated in the period immediately after the Second World War. This historical perspective helps us understand the archival treatment applied to each collection. The National Archives is now engaged in the inventory of a collection coming primarily from the Trampus agency, one of the agencies whose property was acquired by the SNEP. The article discusses the specific methodology applied to these types of documents.

Keywords

• press
• private archives
• archives
• photography
• public archives
• archival collections