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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage II: Republican Palaces
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. -3) Republican Palaces -4) Digression I: Blake’s Cottage 3) Republican Palaces Remarks on Rural Scenery is Smith’s shortest publication. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage I: Real Views
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. – 1) Introduction – 2) Real views 1) Introduction The beginnings of investigative social reportage are usually sought in the Victorian age, in the 1840s, the founding period of illustrated magazines dedicated to daily politics. But graphic social journalism had already been formulated decades […]
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Travelling through Hotel Turgot by cuts. The Art of Wendelien Schönfeld
One rainy afternoon at a friend’s house in Amsterdam I saw a book with a series of colour woodcuts. In the woodcuts the rooms, garden and façades of a former private hôtel in Paris were depicted. In the first print I saw the front door, in the second I entered the building. I saw a […]
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Images from the earliest modern Afghan Wars
The first military conflict covered by the illustrated popular press after its foundation in May 1842 was a war in Afghanistan. But the depictions of the defeat of the British occupation forces in the Asian borderland, which was of equally vital strategical importance for the British as for the Russian Empire, were solely fictitious and […]
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Henri Durand-Brager, Special artist of Bonapartism
“The eyes of the world are upon us! … Misfortune has its heroism and its fame.” (Napoleon Bonaparte, St. Helena, Nov. 1815) “The Napoleonic idea broke forth from St. Helena like the moral doctrine of the Gospel, which had risen, certain of victory, from the agonies of the Calvary.” (Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, L´Idée Napoléonienne, 1840) In […]
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Defiant People. Drawings of Greece Today, London 1952
“Fate intervened in the person of Betty Ambatielos, the indomitable Welsh schoolteacher wife of Tony Ambatielos, a prominent Greek Communist leader who faced execution by the regime of Marshall Papagos which ruled Greece in those days. I was asked to depict his trial against the background of Greece itself, the first victim of the Cold […]
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Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia , Sketchbook
Matthias Reinhold, author of the interactive illustrated encyclopaedia “Ikonlog”, conducted research in Venice in July and August 2012. The sketchbook on hand was created on August 9 at the Museum of Natural History. As in all museums and churches in Venice, taking photos is forbidden.
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Comics as reports, a selection #2
29/2/12 Kairo-Reportage von Olivier Kugler In der neuen Printausgabe der Wochenzeitung Der Freitag erscheint eine Kairo-Reportage des in London lebenden Zeichners Olivier Kugler. Kugler hatte jüngst drei Wochen dort verbracht und neben dem Jahrestag der aegyptischen Revolution auf dem Tahrir Platz auch die blutigen Ausschreitungen rund ums Innenministerium (nach dem Desaster im Fussballstadion von Port […]
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Journal de L’expédition des Portes De Fer (1839 – 44)
The well-known writer and literary critic Charles Nodier, who was a close friend of the Duc d´Orleans, who had died shortly beforehand, was responsible for the text. The illustration work featured three of the most prominent exponents of artistic Orientalism, the two painters Adrien Dauzats and Gabriele Descamps and draughtsman Auguste Raffet. But the work […]
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Algerian Guerrilla War II: Les Portes de fer – The Iron Gates of Subjugation
Pictorial Reports from the Algerian Guerrilla War II After a series of devastating defeats against the insurgent Arab militias led by Abd el-Kader, the French tried to gain valuable time through the Treaty of Tafna to consolidate their military. The agreement, concluded in May 1837, granted Abd el- Kader sovereignty over the largest part of […]