French artist Catherine Balet pays tribute to the great masters of photography by revisiting 176 years of photography. The back-to-school event exhibition at the Galerie Thierry Bigaignon. It all started in 2013, one summer morning in Arles, during the famous photographic meetings. Ricardo Martinez Paz, this young 76-year-old dandy whose resemblance to Picasso is disturbing, is seated in front of buns. He wears a striped sweater that day and displays a somewhat evasive look. Catherine Balet stares at him and immediately thinks of the famous photograph of Picasso by Robert Doisneau. She grabs her camera and immortalizes this moment which will trigger in her an irresistible desire to go further. Two and a half years of hard work followed, leading these two friends to revisit the entire history of photography, from Robert Cornelius' first self-portrait in 1839 to today's selfies.