Friday, November 09, 2012

And Now for Something Completely Different - Art Nouveau Wallpaper - Photography - Belle Epoque

Dear List members,

 

‘Le Papier Peint Art Nouveau - Création, Production, Diffusion’ is not a photo book but a great publication which illustrate the importance of photography in another interesting historical field within the history of popular arts. Photography as an auxiliary science to study the use of vintage Art Nouveau wallpapers.
See: http://www.visual-media.eu/publications_books_popular-arts.html

 

I was very pleased to provide Jérémie Cerman with some images when he first showed interest for the wallpapers visible in stereoscopic photographs from French cabaret (Moulin Rouge & Folies Bergère) in my collection. http://www.visual-media.eu/actrices.html

It proofs that historical photographs can be interesting for so many different reasons, even for purposes and subjects which not look so obvious.

 

I was also surprised by the author’s request since, let be honest, most people enjoy these cabaret images by peeping at these women dressed in scanty opulent costumes.

Fortunately, some others are thrilled by the ephemeral qualities of richly decorated wallpapers and devote a doctoral thesis on the subject followed by a book on ephemeral belle epoque popular art.

 

This wonderful well researched and colorful richly illustrated study on the history of Art Nouveau wallpaper is of interest to every serious photo collector with a wider interests, exceeding the boundaries of his subject matter. The book is a result of the author's, Jérémie Cerman, doctoral thesis at the Panthéon-Sorbonne, university in Paris.

 

Best wishes,

 

Thomas

www.visual-media.eu

 


PS: coming soon in due course:

-       A book on the history of the Moving Panorama with new thrilling information never published before.

-       A book from Hell with, with thanks too Denis Pellerin, Paula Fleming & Brian May and a myriad of skeletons, devils and scanty opulent women too J

-       And more books on Media Archaeology, Insect Media, Cabaret, even about porn as one of the dark sides of our digital culture.

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