Museum Elysée

Gilles Caron embodies the ideal of the heroic reporter. Whilst proclaiming the presence of a developing crisis within his profession, the side effects on a human scale of his heroic engagements are clearly expressed though his images. The Conflict Within of Caron is also one of an entire generation : what is the purpose of his action? Furthermore, do his images provide a valid testimony of the truths they aim to unveil? For Caron, the war is in front of the camera as well as within himself.
The exhibition The Conflict Within will feature over 250 images and unpublished archival documents from the Gilles Caron Foundation, the Musée de l’Elysée, and from private and institutional collections. Through these archival documents - a selection of negatives, contact sheets, and historical clippings - the exhibition helps us rediscover one of the most important photojournalists of the mid-twentieth century.