At the Rencontres d'Arles, 200 Years of Animal Photography, From the First Zoos of the 19th Century to Cute Cats on Social Networks

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Director of Photo Elysée, Nathalie Herschdorfer presents at the Rencontres d'Arles, before Lausanne, a great retrospective of animal images. An exhibition that goes through the history of photography and questions our relationship to animals, between observation, domination and protection "The very first image published on Instagram, in 2010, was the photograph of a dog; the first video posted on YouTube, in 2005, "Me at the zoo", showed one of …