"Photographs of the Paris Commune"
2000-03-14 until 2000-06-11
Musee d'Orsay
Paris, , FR France

The Paris Commune was the first major event in French history to be the object of a large scale photographic rendering and, like the American Civil War, it engendered a profusion of pictures. Action reports, reconstructions and photomontages offer diverse viewpoints, sometimes contradictory or partisan. Their confrontation allows for a study of all the ways photographs could be manipulated, as early as that time, and the difficulty to interpret them.

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