Description: 1871 cabinet card photo carte carde Assassinat des Generaux Clement Thomas et Jules Lecomte le 18 Mars 1871. E. Appert Phot. Expert 24, Rue Tatibout Paris4 1/4 x 6 1/2”In good conditionErnest Eugène Appert (French, 1831–1891) "Following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of Napoleon III, thousands of Parisians revolted against the new royalist-leaning government and declared Paris an independent commune. Weeks of fighting ensued, during which Versailles troops attacked the city while the Communards threw up barricades, shot hostages, and burned government buildings. Soon afterward, Appert, a Parisian portrait photographer, issued “Crimes of the Commune,” a tendentious series of nine photographs of the insurrection that emphasized the criminal brutality of the rebels. Although based on real events, the photographs were utterly fabricated. Appert hired actors to restage each scene in his studio then cut and pasted the figures onto the appropriate backgrounds; atop the actors’ bodies he pasted headshots of the Commune’s key participants. The photographs were later banned by the French government for “disturbing the public peace” by sustaining anti-Communard sentiments—a testament to their effectiveness as political propaganda."( metropolitan museum of art ) "Eugène Appert, Ernest Charles Eugène Appert born in 1830 in Châteauroux and died in 1891 , is a photographer known for his photographs of the Paris Commune of 1871 ... Ernest Eugene Appert born September 10, 1831, the illegitimate son of Anne Appert home. He began as a painter. Eugène Appert exercised the professional photographer in Paris in 1862 at 24 rue Taitbout until 1877 , and then at 21 the Rue Louis-le-Grand . He joined first with Emile Defond in 1860 , then with Joseph Alphonse Bousseton from 1861 to 1868 . Eugène Appert specialized in photography portrait of politicians of all stripes (rulers, nobles, deputies, senators, judges). During the war of 1870 , he took shots of French and Prussian officers. He worked for the Department of Justice as an expert to the court of the Seine, as forensic photographer. He was able to take many pictures of political prisoners. During the Paris Commune, he took up the cause of the Versailles against the Communists . He made on behalf of Thiers and diet Versailles, a large number of photographs of the Versailles repression, both on the ground operating in prisons Versailles as well as many executions committed inside the prison Roquette and the plain of Satory . The Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis has photomontages Eugène Appert."wikipedia
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Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1871
Production Technique: Albumen Print
Subject: crime, history, politics, staged
