In March 1949, French media mogul Jean Prouvost launched Paris Match to be a French language equivalent of the U.S. American magazine Life that could carry its weight through its mixture of large photographs and accompanying pithy prose. In Paris Match’s infancy, France faced a turbulent, exciting period of reconstruction and reconciliation after the Second World War, which was bolstered by cultural, economic, and political assistance from the United States government’s Marshall Plan (1948-1953).

Dans le cadre du colloque «Imaginaires du présent. Photographie, politique et poétique de l'actualité», Annie Dulong a présenté une communication intitulée «Le 11 septembre et l'imagianire de l'absence».

The chances for nuclear conflagration seem more serious at this moment in time than perhaps anytime since the first fateful explosion at Hiroshima some 60 years ago. And yet, images of nuclear explosion seem to be lost to public consciousness, largely out of circulation.