Mai 68 – État des lieux

May 68 is, of course, remembered for the events that fired up France. But it is also where we witness the emergence of influential photographer Claude Dityvon, whose images were scarcely seen or published at the time, and who would go on to create the Viva agency in 1972.

“The act of taking photographs has become, thanks to him, a necessity and a freedom. Contempt for the media, and for a large part of the profession, has liberated it from journalistic constraints. It is not the passion of the crowds and the history which moved him, but the wild freedom or the perpetuation of rebellion that he hunted.”
François Cheval.

“Claude Dityvon has succeeded in ‘showing that which is between things, that which cannot be seen, and which resemble the music of words, and the murmuring of the streets, the state of affairs.’ That is no small feat.”
Christian Caujolle.