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Jean-François Chevrier is an art historian, art critic and exhibition curator. He lives and works in Paris. He is Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.

Imagination, Imitate, Keys, Looks, Reveal

Photography has not invented anything.

Invented, Photography

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

1960S, Artist, Became, Emergence, Photographer, Photography

Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings.

Artist, Degrees, Painterly, Photographic, Photography, Produce

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Art, Modern, Photography, Understand, Writing

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