Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg

Artist’s Talk by Serge Hambourg

April 4, 2008; 5:00 p.m.

Theater Gallery

In an informal tour of the exhibition, Serge Hambourg will comment on the content and context of his photographs and share personal anecdotes from his experience as a photojournalist in Paris during the spring and summer of 1968.

Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at UC Berkeley, will join us on this walk through the gallery to converse with Serge Hambourg about some of the images on view. Professor Jay’s research interests include visual culture and late modern Europe.

One of Hambourg’s photographs pictures Jean-Luc Godard filming the May demonstrations. A new print of Godard’s La Chinoise, originally released in 1967 and often mentioned in connection with these events, will be screened this evening at the PFA Theater as part of the series The Clash of ’68.