This work proposes to review the history of photonovel, to highlight the deep narrative nature of the photographie medium, and to (re) consider the part of literature in the latter.Photonovel seems to be a privileged space to make cohabited photography and litera/ure. Yet beyond its epithet, which seems to induce a necessary relationship to literature, photonovel is primarily a narrative object. It is a novelistic form, but regarded it as a literary or para-literary object, takes usually the analysis to fail.However, there is another form of photo-novel, which does not obey the rules of the genre, and which is actual literary issues. lf authors Plissart and Peeters claim this qualifier for Fugues, Droit de regards or Le Mauvais oeil, their works are however not so much the photonovels than photonovelistic objects. They are located at the crossing of several practices. This work, therefore, consisted of highlighting the profound nature of these productions, and has led, for this, to propose other references, and to build another parentage. These include reconsider the relations between literature and photography (illustrated literature/photo-literature/cine-novel), highlighting more specifically, the influences of literature on the photographic process.
