Visual lecture by Joke de Wolf

On Thursday evening 15 May the art historian Joke de Wolf will delve into the rich seam of French photography of Parisian streets until 1950, from the first images of the Boulevard du Temple made by Louis Daguerre in 1839, and the aerial photos of Paris by Nadar, to the old Paris in photos made by Charles Marville and the Séeberger brothers between 1865 and 1905 – and then on into the twentieth century with the Séeberger brothers, street photos by Germaine Krull, and WW2 barricades, ending in 1950 with Robert Doisneau’s famous photograph of a kiss at the Hôtel de Ville.

Joke de Wolf gained her PhD in 2022 from Groningen University with a dissertation entitled Bewogen straten, about the street photographs that Charles Marville made between 1865 and 1879 on assignment by the Paris municipality. De Wolf studied art history and the history of photography in Amsterdam and Paris, and now works as a freelance art critic for the Trouwdaily newspaper, De Groene Amsterdammer weekly magazine, and others.