Françoise Denoyelle

Françoise Denoyelle is a French historian, professor and photography curator. After her doctoral thesis in 1991 (Le marché et les usages de la photographie à Paris pendant l’entre-deux-guerres), she taught at the School of Photography Louis-Lumière, and coordinated the collective of photographers Le Bar Floréal Photographie.

Since 2004, she heads the Comité des donateurs et ayants droit de l’ex-patrimoine photographique [Donors and Beneficiaries Committee for Photographic Heritage] at the French Culture and Communication Ministry. Since 1998, she is the editor-in-chief of the online photography review Du sel au pixel, and is actively involved in the Paris Mois de la photo.

Among her publications: André Malraux, Portraits choisis par Françoise Denoyelle, Paris, 11-13 éditions, 2017, 99 p. (ISBN 979-10-91004-32-9); Arles, les Rencontres de la photographie : une histoire française, Paris, Art book magazine ; Arles : les Rencontres de la photographie, 2019, 256 p. (ISBN 978-2-8216-0128-4, BNF 46536083).