La Révolution algérienne dans Paris Match : construction d’une mémoire photographique (1954-1962)

Abstract

From 1954, as the French government propaganda denies the Algerian War of Independence and describes it as “pacification”, Paris Match, adopting the official line and working with a team of 21 photo reporters, regularly covers the Algerian news. What vision of the conflict do they convey ? To what extent do the published images contribute to shaping the visual memory we still have today of the conflict ? This article is based on Paris Match’s archives from November 1954 to September 1962. It aims to highlight key milestones of the Algerian Revolution through the analysis of the photographs published by the magazine.

Keywords

• archives
• Algerian war
• decolonization
• photojournalism
• cultural and visual studies
• Paris Match magazine