Thierry Gervais
Professor The Creative School School of Image Arts Toronto, Ontario gervais@torontomu.ca
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Dr. Thierry Gervais is Professor, Director of the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program, and Head of Research of The Image Centre (IMC), Toronto Metropolitan University. He was the editor in chief of Études photographiques from 2007 to 2013 and is the author of n...
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Dr. Thierry Gervais is Professor, Director of the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program, and Head of Research of The Image Centre (IMC), Toronto Metropolitan University. He was the editor in chief of Études photographiques from 2007 to 2013 and is the author of numerous articles on photojournalism in peer-reviewed journals and scholarly publications. He was the curator of the exhibition Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 (IMC, Fall 2014) and the co-curator of the exhibitions Views from Above (Centre Pompidou-Metz, Spring 2013), Léon Gimpel (1873–1948), The Audacious Work of a Photographer (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Spring 2008), and L’événement: Les images comme acteurs de l’histoire (Jeu de Paume, Paris, Winter 2007). At the IMC, he organized the symposia “The ‘Public Life’ of Photographs” (2013), “Collecting and Curating Photographs: Between Private and Public Collections” (2014), “Photography Historians: A New Generation?” (2015), “Photography: the Black Box of History” (2018). The latest he organized took place in the Spring 2025 at the IMC and was titled “Encoding the Image: How does AI affect the Future of Photo History (IMC). He edited The “Public” Life of Photographs (2016), the first volume of the academic “IMC Books” series published in partnership with MIT Press. His book (with Gaëlle Morel) The Making of Visual News. A History of Photography in the Press was released by Bloomsbury in October 2017. With Vincent Lavoie, he co-edited the last volume of IMC Books Facing Black Star (2023). His current research focuses on retouched press photographs and the use of AI in photo histories.
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