Michel Chaillou's prose reveals a renewed and subversive relationship with literature and with past and present knowledges. In most of his works he has surveyed texts, authors, characters, spaces and geographies of past eras.

La Photographie au théâtre proves that theatrical aesthetics have never ceased, for nearly 150 years, to be deeply influenced by the very existence of the photographic media, with its apparatus, its production processes, the flow of its images, its uses and techniques.