Noir & Blanc: A Story of Photography is M+’s first exhibition on photography, co-presented with the French May Arts Festival and in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). This thematic exhibition examines black-and-white photography as a time-honoured medium of art by presenting more than 250 important photographs from BnF’s collection, complemented by over thirty photographs from the M+ Collections. With works dated from 1915 to 2019 in three thematic sections—‘Aiming for Contrast’, ‘Light and Shadow’, and ‘Colour Chart’—the exhibition explores the enduring aesthetics of black-and-white photography and offers different perspectives to understand black-and-white image-making over the course of more than a century.

Venue address: Main Hall Gallery, M+