The Drowned Inventor: Bayard, Daguerre, and the Curious Attractions of Early Photography
2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03087298.2014.939825
ISSN2150-7295
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Culture Studies
ResumoHippolyte Bayard composed Le Noyé (1840) as a performative fiction and a scandalous news item that highlights aspects of the competitive environment in which the French photographic pioneers vied for attention. This article examines diverse strategies of exposure, revelation, and narration employed by Bayard and L. J. M. Daguerre before 1840. The author shows how the marvellous products of early photography were positioned in relation to other sensational attractions in nineteenth-century Paris, such as the morgue, the diorama, journalism, and the promotional réclame.
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