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Portrait d’une ville, Alger

Halim Zenati

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1Depuis un an, le photographe Halim Zenati a entrepris la numérisation de ses archives, un fonds de plusieurs milliers de photographies prises en l’espace de quarante ans. Il nous en livre ici un aperçu ; vingt photographies algéroises qui vont de 1979 à 2020.

2Avec ces clichés, apparaît une ville vivante ; tantôt imposante, tantôt minuscule mais dans laquelle les individus, furtifs ou patients devant l’objectif, ont toute leur place.

Figure 1. Alger, 1979

Figure 1. Alger, 1979

©Halim Zenati

Figure 2. Alger, 1981

Figure 2. Alger, 1981

©Halim Zenati

Figure 3. Alger, 1982

Figure 3. Alger, 1982

©Halim Zenati

Figure 4. Alger, 1983

Figure 4. Alger, 1983

©Halim Zenati

Figure 5. Alger, 1983

Figure 5. Alger, 1983

©Halim Zenati

Figure 6. Alger, 1983

Figure 6. Alger, 1983

©Halim Zenati

Figure 7. Alger, 1983

Figure 7. Alger, 1983

©Halim Zenati

Figure 8. Alger, 1984

Figure 8. Alger, 1984

©Halim Zenati

Figure 9. Alger, 1985

Figure 9. Alger, 1985

©Halim Zenati

Figure 10. Alger, 1986

Figure 10. Alger, 1986

©Halim Zenati

Figure 11. Alger, 1986

Figure 11. Alger, 1986

©Halim Zenati

Figure 12. Alger, 1987

Figure 12. Alger, 1987

©Halim Zenati

Figure 13. Alger, 1990

Figure 13. Alger, 1990

©Halim Zenati

Figure 14. Alger, 1991

Figure 14. Alger, 1991

©Halim Zenati

Figure 15. Alger, 1999

Figure 15. Alger, 1999

©Halim Zenati

Figure 16. Alger, 1999

Figure 16. Alger, 1999

©Halim Zenati

Figure 17. Alger, 1999

Figure 17. Alger, 1999

©Halim Zenati

Figure 18. Alger, 2002

Figure 18. Alger, 2002

©Halim Zenati

Figure 19. Alger, 2003

Figure 19. Alger, 2003

©Halim Zenati

Figure 20. Alger, 2020

Figure 20. Alger, 2020

©Halim Zenati

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List of illustrations

Title Figure 1. Alger, 1979
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-1.jpg
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Title Figure 2. Alger, 1981
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-2.jpg
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Title Figure 3. Alger, 1982
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-3.jpg
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Title Figure 4. Alger, 1983
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-4.jpg
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Title Figure 5. Alger, 1983
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-5.jpg
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Title Figure 6. Alger, 1983
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-6.jpg
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Title Figure 7. Alger, 1983
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-7.jpg
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Title Figure 8. Alger, 1984
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-8.jpg
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Title Figure 9. Alger, 1985
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-9.jpg
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Title Figure 10. Alger, 1986
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-10.jpg
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Title Figure 11. Alger, 1986
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-11.jpg
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Title Figure 12. Alger, 1987
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-12.jpg
File image/jpeg, 140k
Title Figure 13. Alger, 1990
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-13.jpg
File image/jpeg, 138k
Title Figure 14. Alger, 1991
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-14.jpg
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Title Figure 15. Alger, 1999
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-15.jpg
File image/jpeg, 134k
Title Figure 16. Alger, 1999
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-16.jpg
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Title Figure 17. Alger, 1999
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-17.jpg
File image/jpeg, 165k
Title Figure 18. Alger, 2002
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-18.jpg
File image/jpeg, 157k
Title Figure 19. Alger, 2003
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-19.jpg
File image/jpeg, 158k
Title Figure 20. Alger, 2020
Credits ©Halim Zenati
URL http://journals.openedition.org/coma/docannexe/image/5461/img-20.jpg
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References

Electronic reference

Halim Zenati, “Portrait d’une ville, Alger”Continents manuscrits [Online], 14 | 2020, Online since 12 May 2020, connection on 11 July 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/coma/5461; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.5461

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About the author

Halim Zenati

Halim Zenati fait ses premiers pas en photographie à Alger en 1976. Influencé par Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau ou encore Édouard Boubat, il expose pour la première fois en 1979 à la salle El Mouggar (Alger). Tout au long de sa carrière, la photo de spectacle côtoie la photo urbaine et de presse. Il prépare actuellement une rétrospective de quarante ans de photographie. Ses principales publications : Livret de famille, Paris, Marsa, 1999 ; Salut les artistes, Alger, Dalimen 2002 ; Algérie, regards croisés, Paris, Éditions Milan, 2003 ; Chronique algéroise, Alger, Dalimen, 2007. Ses principales expositions : « Femmes algériennes », FNAC, Grenoble, 1999 ; « Famille algérienne », Hôpitaux de Paris, 1999 ; « Les enfants d’Algérie », L’Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 2003 ; « La condition humaine », MAMA, Alger, 2014 ; « La Havane », Musée du Bardo, Alger, 2016 ; « Festival Panafricain », MAMA 2009.

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