Dominique Baqué on Photography After the 2015 Paris Attacks

In the April 2015 issue of artpress (No. 421, pp. 88-89), critic Dominique Baqué reflects on the difficulty of writing about photography in the immediate aftermath of the January 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris. She questions the relevance of photographic criticism amid such tragedy, noting that the medium may seem vain or superfluous. Baqué observes that only violent photomontages might still resonate in this context. The piece is part of her regular column and engages with the tension between aesthetic discourse and political violence.