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Chapter Three delves into the archive of collective photographic ventures designed and supported by various institutions to document and appraise the evolution of modern French space. Resonating with groundbreaking government-backed commissions like the Mission héliographique of 1851 and the Mission photographique de la DATAR from the 1980s, the chapter focuses on two, more recent group projects: the ongoing, state-sponsored Observatoire photographique du paysage, inaugurated in 1991, and the more proteiform France(s) territoire liquide project from 2011-2014. Both missions bring together a team of artists who, each in their own way, visualizes the “infranational territory” of France—its small towns and borderlands, from regional parks and parking lots to out-of-the way places and seemingly insignificant spaces—to explore how these local landscapes have adjusted to commercial and industrial development and disruption, migration and immigration, and ecological change. |
