Michel Poivert describes as “neo-analog” photographic practices involving creative processes that assert the role of materiality and experimentation over the production of an image. It thus opens onto the global notion of “analog culture”, defined as the counterpart to “digital culture”. Analog no longer designates a technical fact, but a cultural one. What characterizes the neoanalogue is a strong “ecosophical” awareness, i.e. a perception of the Anthropocene era as a general historical framework. In this respect, the analogical turn marks a political project.

Michel Poivert is Professor of Art History at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, where he founded the Chair in the History of Photography, is a critic and curator, and chairs the Collège international de photographie. His publications include La photographie contemporaine (Flammarion, 2018), Brève histoire de la photographie, essai (Hazan, 2015), 50 ans de photographie française de 1970 à nos jours (Textuel, 2019), Contreculture dans la Photographie contemporaine (Textuel, 2022). He organized the exhibitions L'Événement, les images comme acteur de l'histoire, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, (2007), Nadar, la Norme et le Caprice (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2015), Métamorphose - La photographie en France 1968-1989 (Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, 2022), AImagine - Photography and Generative Image (Hangar, Brussels, 2025).

As part of the Photo Extra-Large Chair supported by Neuflize OBC.
 

Photo credits: © Mouna Saboni