Artistic views

This album of “artistic views” reproduced, classified by thematic plates, photographs printed on postcards dating from the years 1900-1925. This collection encourages us to question the relationships between the ways in which which the art of painting of the second half of the 19th century, on the one hand, and industrial photography printed on postcards at the beginning of the century following, on the other hand, have been able to render the surrounding world. Although the materialities differ, the maps attest to a continuity, sometimes a coincidence, with tables. It is enough to observe how they are treated some sites: Paris, its river, its avenues, its parks, its fields of races, then the rural areas around the capital, and more far from the theatre of the Normandy coast, and up to the detour to the south or, from the other side of the Mediterranean, by the Algerian colony. with the diffusion massive collection of postcard photography by photographers from The beginning of the 20th century reproduced the spectacle of the world more than ever surrounding and have valued themselves by thinking of doing it in the manner of art.