“Le Noyé” and “Construction Worker, Paris” in Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography
Jillian Lerner, “Le Noyé [The Drowned Man]” and “Construction Worker, Paris” in Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, edited by Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter. Los Angelos, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024. Book information: The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium […]
Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits […]
Graphic Culture, Illustration, and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848
Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian modernity in order to market new print publications that would amplify […]