On the metaphor and practice of photography: Socialist realism, the popular front in France and the dynamics of cultural unity

Dell, Simon (2001) On the metaphor and practice of photography: Socialist realism, the popular front in France and the dynamics of cultural unity. History of Photography, 25 (1). pp. 52-60. ISSN 2150-7295

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Abstract

On 30 April 1936 the Communist-supported photo-journal Regards published a sequence of photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson (figure 1). These photographs are quite unlike the immaculately composed works for which Cartier-Bresson would later become famous; instead the images are seemingly quite casual. They are not made by seizing ‘decisive moments’. Indeed, for Cartier-Bresson the capturing of the ‘decisive moment’ would be -a question of working ‘in terms of reality, not of fiction’, whilst the photographs in Regards werederived from a fictional precedent: they were an accompaniment to a short feature on a novel by Tristan Rémy, Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art History and World Art Studies (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for European and American Art History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Centre for African Art and Archaeology
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:56
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2023 11:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9012
DOI:	10.1080/03087298.2001.10443436

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