Thèse soutenue

Recherches sur la photographie et la Commune
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Auteur / Autrice : Joël Petitjean
Direction : Bruno Foucart
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Histoire de l'art
Date : Soutenance en 1996
Etablissement(s) : Paris 4

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Photographies on paris commune (1871) are very often reproduced for illustration purposes in historical publications. For many years, it is regularly question of theses pictures in works dedicated to photography. Nevertheless it odes not exist yet any reference book. The reading of contradictory commentaries justify an open analysis, of aesthetic, historical and sociological nautre, based on a methodical inventory of pictures. For fhe first time, this work direct in public collections (paris, bibliotheque nationale, etc. ) has been made. This report includes a study accordingy to three approaches : a typological and thematic analysis, a situation of the pictures in comparison with other means of representation (endgraving) or expression (writting), an analysis of the various photography appropriations created by the events. The stidy is followed up of a chronology, of an important catalogue of printings and albums, including biographical notes, of a bibiliography, and of a choice of reproductions. In an extreme historic situation, the photography takes a wider place and is revealing. Some of its uses are systematized (communication, propaganda, police identification). Antidote against spacio-temporal distance, photography is a vehicle for some aspects of reality. It searches its identity in its relation to the event, it registers the sites and the characters, in an increasing proximity report "historical photography" is syubstituating to history painting. Photography transmits symbols, contributes to conditioning. It is used, and censored by authorities.