Dominique Roger and UNESCO's photography program

An interview with her agent and curator Barbara Brühl-Day


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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22517/25392662.25533

Keywords:

Fotografía humanista, UNESCO, Fotoperiodismo, Diplomacia Cultural

Abstract

Dominique Roger is certainly one of the few living correspondents who contributed from the inside to the ambitious photographic policy promoted by the United Nations (UN) and its specialized agencies in the second half of the 20th century. Between 1976-1992, she directed the Unesco photographic service based in the VIIth arrondissement of Paris, carrying out some 135 international documentation missions in the flesh, or recruiting a varied network of external reporters who put their lenses at the service of technical assistance programs for the promotion of art, education, science and the safeguarding of heritage. Along with her, a French national, there are profiles of other women camera operators such as Italian Florita Botts, who was the official FAO photographer (based in Rome) at the height of the Cold War and the decolonization processes, or Russian Maria Bordy, one of the first press officers linked to the UN headquarters in New York.

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Author Biography

Oscar Daniel Hernández Quiñones, Universidad del Rosario

Candidato a Doctor en Historia de América Latina por la Universidad Católica de Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Historiador y Magíster en Estudios Sociales de la Universidad del Rosario. Miembro fundador de la Red de Estudios sobre Modernización en las Américas (REMA), así como del Grupo de Investigadores en Historia de la Fotografía Colombiana. Actualmente es becario doctoral del Servicio Alemán de Intercambio Académico (DAAD). 

 

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Hernández, Óscar Daniel. «El proyecto fotográfico de las Naciones Unidas en América Latina (1945-1980). Una primera caracterización». Revista Historia de América, n.o 165 (2023): 269-303.

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Roger, Dominique. Un chemin vers la paix. París: Unesco, 2017.

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Published

2024-06-30

How to Cite

Hernández Quiñones, O. D. (2024). Dominique Roger and UNESCO’s photography program: An interview with her agent and curator Barbara Brühl-Day. Ciencia Nueva, Journal in History and Politics, 8(1), 189–199. https://doi.org/10.22517/25392662.25533

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Annals and Memories