
Historian of photography, professor at Université Paris 8, editor-in-chief of La Recherche photographique.
historian of photography, professor at Université Paris 8, editor-in-chief of La Recherche photographique. Rouillé runs www.paris-art.com the first French website devoted to contemporary culture including art, photography, design, dance, literature, which he established in 2002. Author of books on photography and contemporary art, including: L'Empire de la photographie : photographie et pouvoir bourgeois 1839-1870, Le Sycomore 1982; Le Corps et son image : photographies du dix-neuvième siècle, Contrejour 1986; Histoire de la photographie (with Jean-Claude Lemagny), Larousse-Bordas, 1986; La Photographie en France, textes et controverses: une anthologie 1816-1871, Macula 1989; La Photographie, entre document et art contemporain, Gallimard 2005 (Polish edition: Fotografia. Między dokumentem a sztuką współczesną, transl. Oskar Hedemann, Universitas 2007).