"After nearly half a century of oblivion, Pierre Dubreuil has emerged from the shadows. His reappearance is so startling that the question has to be asked: How could one of the pivotal Modernists of photography have been forgotten--relegated to such obscurity that few histories of the medium even mention him, even in a footnote?" This exquisitely printed catalog from the retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou demands a reconsideration of the unjustly neglected work of this leader of the French pictorialists.