André Rouillé (France, 1948) is a doctor in History and a professor in the program of Art, aesthetics and politics of the University of Paris-8. Among his books as an author are: The Empire of Photography, 1839-1870 (1982), History of Photography (1986, with Jean-Claude Lemagny), The Body and its Image. Photograph of the nineteenth century (1986) and Correspondence of Nadar (1999).
He was editor-in-chief of La Recherche Photographique between 1986 and 1997. Since 2002, he has directed www.paris-art.com, the first site of contemporary art criticism in France, where he has published more than 400 publishers.