De Paris à Biarritz avec Germaine Krull et Claude Farrère : Un voyage phototextuel à l’ère du développement de l’automobile

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, many technological innovations transformed man’s relationship to space, distance and time. The automobile is becoming more accessible. It became a predilection subject for modernist photographers. In 1931, the éditions Jacques Haumont published La Route Paris-Biarritz, seen and photographed by Germain Krull, with a preface by Claude Farrère. This book presents the diversity of the area travelled. But it is also a revealing example of how the technique – photographic and traveling – determines the journey and its narrative.

Keywords

• photography
• publishing
• technical developments
• photographic avant-garde
• interwar period