Gestes et images du voyage en Orient

It has often been said that Flaubert rejected photography. We wish to review this statement by studying what photographs Flaubert saw during his eighteen-month-long trip in the Orient. Indeed, he closely witnessed the complex gestures and production of paper negatives, beautiful photographic objects...

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Main Author: Monique Sicard
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Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2014-12-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2340
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description It has often been said that Flaubert rejected photography. We wish to review this statement by studying what photographs Flaubert saw during his eighteen-month-long trip in the Orient. Indeed, he closely witnessed the complex gestures and production of paper negatives, beautiful photographic objects whose novelty cannot have left him indifferent. In fact, the presence of photography in his letters and his travel notebooks is more important than it might first appear. These large negatives, that result in a symbolic and effective link with the book, are not to be confused with the use of photo-cards that later led Flaubert to reject photographic objects. This article shows the contribution of the history of photography in the debate, and the necessity of favoring a diversity of photographic objects instead of the concept named, as a matter of convenience, “photography”.
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient
Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
Flaubert Gustave
Du Camp Maxime
photographie
paysage
Égypte
Négatif
title Gestes et images du voyage en Orient
title_full Gestes et images du voyage en Orient
title_fullStr Gestes et images du voyage en Orient
title_full_unstemmed Gestes et images du voyage en Orient
title_short Gestes et images du voyage en Orient
title_sort gestes et images du voyage en orient
topic Flaubert Gustave
Du Camp Maxime
photographie
paysage
Égypte
Négatif
url https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2340
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