L’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ET L’OEOEUVRE DE L’ÉCRIVAIN FRANÇAIS MAXIME DU CAMP Cover Image

L’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ET L’OEOEUVRE DE L’ÉCRIVAIN FRANÇAIS MAXIME DU CAMP
L’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ET L’OEOEUVRE DE L’ÉCRIVAIN FRANÇAIS MAXIME DU CAMP

Author(s): Mirel Anghel, Diana Ligia Tudor
Subject(s): Photography
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: photography; writing; travel accounts; Flaubert; archaeological mission; Orient

Summary/Abstract: When photography appeared it was considered by many artists and writers as a means of reviving their art, creativity, aesthetic and authenticity as well. Such was the case of Maxime Du Camp, a 19th century French writer and pioneer in photography, who became well-known among the Parisian literary circles of his epoch after writing about his jurney to the Middle East in his travel accounts, which he illustrated with his own photographs.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 124-128
  • Page Count: 5