Photographie Time Lapse, style 1842 : détail, gravure en bois teintée à la main de premiers photographes bohèmes, dessinés comme des singes par le satirat politique et social français radical J.J. Grandville (1803-47), attendant impatiemment qu'un assistant simien finisse de laver ses plaques photographiques. De «scénarios de la vie privée et publique des animaux», dans lequel Grandville a décrit de nombreux autres animaux effectuant des tâches humaines.
4696 x 5870 px | 39,8 x 49,7 cm | 15,7 x 19,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1842
Lieu:
Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Paris, Île-de-France, France: arrogant early photographers, elegantly dressed but seen as monkeys by French satirical artist, illustrator and caricaturist, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847), better known by the pseudonym J.J. Grandville. He was famous for his political cartoons and is seen as a key influence on 20th century Surrealism. The photographers, wearing bohemian-style cloaks and plumed hats, wait impatiently in line behind their wooden box cameras with hand on hip and folded arms as a simian assistant toils to wash their photographic plates. This bizarre image is a detail of one of 320 Grandville wood engravings in ‘Scènes de la Vie privée et publique des animaux’ (Scenes of the Private and Public Life of Animals), a collection of articles and short stories first released in serial form and then published in Paris in 1842 as a two-volume set. It sold 25, 000 copies - at least 20, 000 more than first edition works by one of its other contributors, Honoré de Balzac. Jean Gérard, born in Nancy, was a prolific radical artist who engaged in satirical republican campaigns against the Bourbon monarchy and fought official attempts to intimidate and censor him. He was also a keen social satirist, often - as in this artwork - depicting animals in human roles. He has been called “the first star of French caricature’s great age” and has also prompted the comment: “His perverse vision sought the monster in everyone.” The original print scanned for this listing was hand-coloured at a later date. D1348.B7971.B
