Paul-Louis Roubert (born 1967) is an associate researcher at the ''Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine'', senior lecturer in photography at

Paris 8 University Paris 8 University (), or usually the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis or Paris 8, is a public university in the Greater Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is base ...

and, since December 2010, president of the

Société française de photographie The Société française de photographie (SFP) is an association, founded on 15 November 1854, devoted to the history of photography. It has a large collection of photographs and old cameras. Among the founding members were Olympe Aguado, Hippoly ...

.Michel Poivert, "Paul-Louis Roubert nouveau président de la SFP"
, ''Culture visuelle''. Retrieved 3 March 2011.André Gunthert, "Paul-Louis Roubert élu maître de conférences à Paris 8"
Actualités de la Recherche en histoire visuelle. Retrieved 3 March 2011. Roubert was awarded a doctorate in 2004 on the basis of his thesis on ''L'Introduction du modèle photographique dans la critique d'art en France'' which led to ''L'Image sans qualités'' published in 2006. He has been closely connected to the Société française de photographie whose bulletin he edited from 1999 to 2004. Since 1996, He has been a founding member of the journal ''Etudes photographiques''. He has lectured in the history of photography at Paris 8, Paris 1 and at the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conj ...

. In December 2010, succeeding

Michel Poivert Michel Poivert (born 1965) is a professor of the history of contemporary art and photography at the Sorbonne. He has taken a special interest in pictorialism, the subject of his doctorate thesis. From 1995 to 2010, he was president of Société f ...

, he was unanimously elected president of the Société française de photographie.

Main publications

*"L'Image sans qualités". Les beaux-arts et la critique à l'épreuve de la photographie, 1839-1859, Paris, Monum, 2006. *"Le daguerréotype en procès", Le Daguerréotype français. Un objet photographique (cat. exp.), Paris, Musée d’Orsay/RMN, 2003, p. 119-131. *"1859. Exposer la photographie", Études photographiques.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roubert, Paul-Louis French art historians Photography academics Photography critics Photography in France Academic staff of the University of Paris 1967 births Living people Writers from Reims French male non-fiction writers