As part of its 2024-2025 season dedicated to work, the City of Economy explores the relationships women have with the world of work through an exhibition of Janine Niépce.
The exhibition highlights her photographs, which bear witness to changes in the position of women during the second part of the 20th century. Organized in three parts, it offers an insight into the daily lives of women from the 50s to the 90s, highlighting their essential contribution to society, their struggles for freedom from motherhood and for equality and finally their evolution within the world of work. Janine Niépce is one of the first photographers to highlight the daily lives of women in their homes, carrying out self-employed work that is not recognized by society but nevertheless creates value. She photographs the integration of society by these women who leave their homes as well as signs of female emancipation such as young women's access to scientific fields, new fashions (boy cut, mini-skirt, pants) , young people sitting at cafes, women smoking… “For the first time, we no longer saw just dream figures on glossy paper, but women, with disheveled hair, surprised in their kitchen, a child in their arms . (…) Men were used to photographing beautiful women, posing for haute couture models, but rarely doing the laundry! » Janine Niépce, Les Années Femme, Éditions de La Martinière, published in October 1993
Janine Niépce: A look at women and work
Until January 5, 2025
The City of Economy
1, place du Général-Catroux
75017 Paris
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