Birth of the “Miroir
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:30 am
Meanwhile, the mass press was enjoying ever-increasing success. Millions of copies were printed, and the tragic stories of crimes or disasters of all kinds piqued the public's curiosity. Blood sold. And people wanted to see the event. So, reporter cartoonists illustrated many of these horrors on the front page. They imagined the unbearable scenes of the serial killer Troppman (eight victims) or sketched the wars of the time on the ground. But after the inventions of Louis Daguerre in 1839 and Edouard Belin in 1908, the press was finally able to seize the photo as a new guarantee of credibility, and an additional sales argument.
In 1912, Jean Dupuis, the owner of Le Petit Parisien, announced israel mobile database the”. This magazine will offer you “ the lived document ”, he wrote.
Irresistible! If only two years ago, Jean Lafitte had launched "L'excelsior". A "daily illustrated" with thirty or so photos for each issue. Normal, since "his photographers are everywhere" as the advert of the time said. A bit like those cell phones, always there to capture god knows what.
So, if we add "L'Illustration" and "La vie illustrée", we can say that at the dawn of the 1920s, photojournalism was born.
Albert Londres himself was equipped with a small camera. "Terre d'ébène", his work published in 1929 on the more than dubious practices of the French colonial world, has its counterpart in images, more than 200 photos taken by the reporter. Precisely, some made the front page of "l'Excelsior". And when he was violently attacked by the fierce defenders of the French Empire, Londres replied that he was serene, having all the proof of what he was saying. Perhaps he was thinking of his photos...
In 1912, Jean Dupuis, the owner of Le Petit Parisien, announced israel mobile database the”. This magazine will offer you “ the lived document ”, he wrote.
Irresistible! If only two years ago, Jean Lafitte had launched "L'excelsior". A "daily illustrated" with thirty or so photos for each issue. Normal, since "his photographers are everywhere" as the advert of the time said. A bit like those cell phones, always there to capture god knows what.
So, if we add "L'Illustration" and "La vie illustrée", we can say that at the dawn of the 1920s, photojournalism was born.
Albert Londres himself was equipped with a small camera. "Terre d'ébène", his work published in 1929 on the more than dubious practices of the French colonial world, has its counterpart in images, more than 200 photos taken by the reporter. Precisely, some made the front page of "l'Excelsior". And when he was violently attacked by the fierce defenders of the French Empire, Londres replied that he was serene, having all the proof of what he was saying. Perhaps he was thinking of his photos...