Gaze, voice, body: Agnès Varda’s presence, throughout much of the Twentieth Century and well into the 2000s, has consistently articulated these three elements. As an art historian and photographer, she has always grounded her artistic practice in sight and vision, maintaining an ongoing dialogue with what we refer to as visual culture. This vision has been enhanced by the camera and the film camera, sensory and cognitive prostheses that have made technical reproducibility a means of understanding and positioning oneself in the world. Thus, Varda constructed a dynamic and dialogical gaze, one that has been continually nourished by her relationships with others over time. Indeed, we could also use to see, to speak, and to hear to describe Varda’s trajectory, as many of the essays collected in this volume continue to demonstrate. A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, an indefatigable experimenter and manipulator of audiovisual materials, and more recently a brilliant creator of exhibitions and installations, Varda succeeded in interpreting the changes of a rapidly transforming world, always open to encounters with others and to social, aesthetic, and technological innovations.