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AraGo: Launching a new Photographic Platform in France
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ByVéronique MartingayOn 27th March 2012, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication launched a photographic platform called "AraGo", named in honour of François Arago, author of a report on the daguerreotype presented to the French Academy of Sciences in 1839.
The purpose of this online platform is to offer the general public, as well as professionals, free access to the photographic collections of public institutions and private collections within France. Of the 17,000 images currently online, the majority comes, for the time being, from public collections managed or distributed by RMN/GP (Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Grand Palais) as well as the private collections of Neuflize Vie bank, a supporter of this project.
The site will continue to grow with the aim of distributing photographic knowledge, offering a directory of images dating from the invention of photography until today. Although managed by the RMN agency, there is no commercial pretext to the project and, according to Daniel Barroy, responsible for photography at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, AraGo does not form part of the EUROPEANA project.
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