Nicole Gravier’s Research in the 1970s, or Photography as an Image Analysis Tool

Abstract The article proposes an interpretative reading of the research that Nicole Gravier conducted during the 1970s. From her first tests, the artist made use of the photographic medium, which would remain her expressive tool of choice throughout the decade. She deconstructs the myths of visual communication, even everyday ones, by immersing herself in them through photography. Often the protagonist of her own works, Gravier arrives with the Photoromans series to criticize and question the stereotyped rhetoric of the female image, making these works interesting materials for a feminist reading.