Baudelaire et la photographie: paradoxes et allégories

• Autores: Paul-Louis Roubert
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 175, 2012, págs. 11-15
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The debate in the field of art criticism accompanying the apparition of photography in the 19th century is today symbolized for the most part by Charles Baudelaire's text "Le public moderne et la photographie" (The Modern Public and Photography) from the Salon de 1859. For historiographers Baudelaire has thus become the most ardent adversary, of the mechanical image. However, from Paris to Brussels, Baudelaire, himself, went to be photographed, at least thirteen times by the best photographers, between 1854 and 1866. It is thus that one must search the heart of the poetic work for the keys to this apparent contradiction. Baudelaire the critic analyzes the novelty of photography and the perturbation of the artistic field it causes, while Baudelaire the poet tries to place at a distance the fascination exercised by what he alternately called "the humble servant" or "the little mistress".