Felice Beato in China. Photographing the War in 1860.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 22992 |
| Format | 26 x 22 |
| Détails | 129 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2005 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782850568954 |
The Lille Natural History Museum houses a collection of old photographs comprising four thousand pieces, one of which, unique in France, is an album retracing the 1860 China campaign photographed by Felice Beato. He was the only photographer to accompany the Franco-British expeditionary force during this colonial war, the outcome of which would be decisive in this region of the world for decades to come. Felice Beato offers a completely new vision of the conflicts, overturning the codes that governed these images and which, until then, had hidden the corpses on the battlefields. This richly illustrated and extensively documented work is the first in Europe devoted to this astonishing series of Felice Beato's photographs of China, revealing on this occasion the earliest photographic testimony on Beijing and inland China. The text covers all the subjects that shed significant light on these images: the historical context, photographic technique, the dissemination and uses of photographs, as well as the relationship between the army and photography during this period. This book allows us to rediscover one of the great photographers of the 19th century and to witness the birth of a genre that would later be called "war reporting".
The Lille Natural History Museum houses a collection of old photographs comprising four thousand pieces, one of which, unique in France, is an album retracing the 1860 China campaign photographed by Felice Beato. He was the only photographer to accompany the Franco-British expeditionary force during this colonial war, the outcome of which would be decisive in this region of the world for decades to come. Felice Beato offers a completely new vision of the conflicts, overturning the codes that governed these images and which, until then, had hidden the corpses on the battlefields. This richly illustrated and extensively documented work is the first in Europe devoted to this astonishing series of Felice Beato's photographs of China, revealing on this occasion the earliest photographic testimony on Beijing and inland China. The text covers all the subjects that shed significant light on these images: the historical context, photographic technique, the dissemination and uses of photographs, as well as the relationship between the army and photography during this period. This book allows us to rediscover one of the great photographers of the 19th century and to witness the birth of a genre that would later be called "war reporting".