Felice Beato en Chine: Photographier la guerre en 1860 — Felice Beato / Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq — Somogy éditions d’art — 2005

Fortifications, battle sites and the aftermath of fighting make this an account of war seen through one of photography’s early practitioners. Felice Beato’s images of the 1860 campaign in China belong to the history of the Second Opium War, placing the camera within a military and imperial enterprise. Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq’s study supplies a historical framework for looking at photographs whose apparent descriptive clarity cannot be separated from the circumstances of their production. The subject is both what Beato recorded and the role photography played in making distant conflict visible. Published in connection with the Musée d’histoire naturelle de Lille, this French-language catalogue brings photographic history and the history of colonial warfare into the same field of attention.

Technical Sheet
Title: Felice Beato en Chine: Photographier la guerre en 1860
Artist / Author: Felice Beato / Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq
Date: 2005
Medium / Materials: Paperback
Pages: 129
Dimensions: 22 × 26 cm
Language: French
Publisher: Somogy éditions d’art
ISBN: 9782850568954