Abstract

Throughout the period of the occupation, photographs were taken in French internment camps for nomads. This photographic production seems to fall into two main categories: on the one hand, an official production on the part of the French authorities of Vichy, controlled by the Germans, to which is added a press production subject to censorship; on the other hand, an institutional and amateur production, realized outside of any official framework. Based on the analysis of a corpus of about a hundred photographs, this article aims to answer important questions: what photographic representation of the internment of nomads appears through each of the existing corpus? What knowledge, through images, of the persecution of so-called nomads was accessible to witnesses, and therefore what knowledge did French society of the time have of it?

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