October 17, 1961 (with Elie Kagan)

Actes Sud, Arles, 2001, 127 pages - ISBN 978-2742735174

A major photographic work that brings together all the photographs of October 17, 1961, taken by Elie Kagan, the only photographer present during the events, accompanied by a previously unpublished introductory text by Jean-Luc Einaudi.

Kagan photographed in several locations in Paris: Concorde metro station, Solférino, rue des Pâquerettes in Nanterre, capturing police brutality and the indifference of the population.

His images constitute irrefutable visual proof of the massacre and bear witness to the corpses, hundreds of wounded and more than eleven thousand arrests.

These photographs, preserved at the Museum of Contemporary History-BDIC, remain the key testimony to this tragic episode that has long been hidden.

Einaudi's text contextualizes these disturbing images and explains their historical significance as a "breach" through which the truth was able to make its way despite official attempts at cover-up.

The book also includes a "free text" from the photographer's personal archives and an afterword by Thérèse Blondet-Bisch, director of the BDIC's photographic collections, which traces the history of these exceptional documents.