How art helped to shape modern France
September 17, 2024
September 17, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Sept. 17 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
In the 1880s, France established a government service dedicated to the restoration of the country's mountainous terrain, and each regional office was provided with a traveling camera.
Carried in a wooden backpack, the state-of-the-art equipment yielded an incredible archive of photographs, demonstrating the way art and administration influenced each other in France, said art historian Kelly . . .
In the 1880s, France established a government service dedicated to the restoration of the country's mountainous terrain, and each regional office was provided with a traveling camera.
Carried in a wooden backpack, the state-of-the-art equipment yielded an incredible archive of photographs, demonstrating the way art and administration influenced each other in France, said art historian Kelly . . .