NOIR & BLANC A PHOTOGRAPHIC AESTHETIC Following on from the major photo exhibitions held in the South East Gallery of the Grand Palais since 2012, the Noir & Blanc A Photographic Aesthetic exhibition had the ambition to present 350 works produced by more than 200 artists from 26 different countries, representing the exceptional collection of the BnF's Prints and Photography Department, thus going back through 150 years of black and white photography history. Nadar, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Willy Ronis, Helmut Newton, Diane Arbus, Mario Giacomelli, Robert Frank, William Klein, Daido Moriyama, Valérie Belin

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