Towards Photojournalism 1848-1919: Photography at the Musée d'Orsay [Paperback]

Françoise Heilbrun (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 6, 2007

Ever since its invention in 1839, photography has had the ambition of reproducing everything and depicting the overall reality of the world. Given the long exposure times of the daguerrotype, the first photographic journeys were dedicated to landscapes and major monuments. Despite the technical obstacles, the attempt to produce a faithful or composed vision of people, of their singularity, their joys and sufferings, appeared by the end of the 1840s, linked to the realist approach of painting and the humanist philosophers. This book features a selection of documentary photographs including those by F,lix Thiollier, which reveal his great human and artistic sensibility-depicting the work of the miners in the Saint-Etienne region. Also included are the photographs taken in Poland at the beginning of the 20th century in a Jewish ghetto, which underline the injustice of the fate of the children and the self-sacrifice of their relatives. The book discusses this new form of visual documentation and how

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About the Author

Dominique de Font-Reaulx is a photography curator at the Musee d'Orsay. She is the author of several books including 'The Artist's Studio (Photography at the Musee d'Orsay Series)' and 'The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1855.'Joelle Bolloch is an archivist and curator at the Musee d'Orsay. She is the author of 'The Eiffel Tower (Photography at the Musee d'Orsay Series)' and 'Women in the 19th Century: Categories and Contradictions.'

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: 5Continents (November 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8874394349
• ISBN-13: 978-8874394340
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,077,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)