Protest in Paris

Serge Hambourg Photographs at the Hood

A new exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg, features 35 photographs, many displayed for the first time. Serge Hambourg, a French photojournalist, took the images while working for the Parisian weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. On view until November 19, the exhibition provides an eyewitness account of the events of May 1968 in Paris, when student and worker strikes against the political and social establishment brought France to a standstill. Barricades went up, arrests were made, and street fighting and other violence roiled the country.

Serge Hambourg is an independent photographer who in the 1960s and 1970s worked for the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur and the newspaper Le Figaro.
The exhibition opening will be held on Friday, October 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. M. Anne Sa'adah, cocurator of the exhibition and the Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science in the government department, will present a lecture, "Perspectives on May 1968." A reception hosted by the Friends of the Hopkins Center and the Hood Museum of Art will follow in Kim Gallery.

Other programming highlights will include the screening of two 1972 films by French director Jean-Luc Godard. Letter to Jane (1972) and Tout va Bien (1972) will be shown in Loew Theater on Saturday, November 11, at 2 p.m. Lynn Higgins, chair of French and Italian, will introduce the films and lead a brief discussion afterward.

By SHARON REED

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