L'imagination au pouvoir

Title: L'imagination au pouvoir

Photographer(s): Jo Schnapp

Writer(s): Walter Lewino

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Publisher(s): Eric Losfeld Editeur / Le Terrain Vague, Paris, France

Year: 1968

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Language(s): French

Pages: 54

Size: 23 x 24 cm

Binding: Softcover

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Print: Imprimerie Cinémato, Paris, France

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: France, 1968

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One-way street for the Latin Quarter, direction May 68: the walls are covered with situationist or anarchist-inspired slogans.

On 3 May, a procession of 2,000 students bypasses the police, from Place de l'Odéon to the Faculty of Science. The enrolments mark this course. No allusion yet to political movements or to De Gaulle: they express a global and uncompromising demand, a demand for freedom at all costs. During the Night of the Barricades, on 10 May, 25,000 young people take to the streets. Around the Place de la Contrescarpe, imagination takes over: ''Society is a carnivorous flower'' / ''There is only one''. Then comes the challenge pure and simple: ''Defence to ban'' or ''CRS = SS''. On 13 May, the unions mingle with the student crowd, the Sorbonne is attacked by profaners: ''Hide, object!'' / ''Professors,