This special issue of Cahiers de la photography is published on the occasion of the exhibition 20 years of creative photography in Francia: 1968-1988; it was designed and realized by Gilles Mora for the cultural department of Bayer AG (Leverkusen), thanks to funding from Agfa Francia and Agfa Germany. This work contains photographs from the entire exhibition as well as a critical commentary by Gilles Mora and Claude Nori, texts by Agathe Gaillard, Jean-Claude Lemagny, Christian Caujolle, Michel Nuridsany, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel.