Paul-Louis Roubert is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine, senior lecturer in photography at Paris 8 University and, since December 2010, president of the Société française de photographie

Société française de photographie

The Société française de photographie is an association, founded in 1854, devoted to the history of photography. It has a large collection of photographs and old cameras...

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Roubert was awarded a doctorate in 2004 on the basis of his thesis on L'Introduction du modèle photographique dans la critique d'art en France which led to L'Image sans qualités published in 2006. He has been closely connected to the Société française de photographie whose bulletin he edited from 1999 to 2004. Since 1996, He has been a founding member of the journal Etudes photographiques. He has lectured in the history of photography at Paris 8, Paris 1 and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...

. In December 2010, succeeding Michel Poivert

Michel Poivert

Michel Poivert is professor of the history of contemporary art and photography at the Sorbonne. He has taken a special interest in pictorialism, the subject of his doctorate thesis...

, he was unanimously elected president of the Société française de photographie.

Main publications

• "L'Image sans qualités". Les beaux-arts et la critique à l'épreuve de la photographie, 1839-1859, Paris, Monum, 2006.
• "Le daguerréotype en procès", Le Daguerréotype français. Un objet photographique (cat. exp.), Paris, Musée d’Orsay/RMN, 2003, p. 119-131.
• "1859. Exposer la photographie", Études photographiques.