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Between the lines, behind the images 1903-1930. The unsettling normality of the German press archives
Culture · Wednesday, November 4 · 18:00 · Saint-Étienne
16 place Jacquard, 42000 Saint-Etienne
To me, the historian’s task is not to ‘make a representation speak’ but to enable a fair confrontation with the present, to ‘make heard’ as clearly as possible sets of representations/archives. This accuracy is achieved through a writing work that one could call editing and even mounting.\nPhilippe Artières, 2015*\n\nAt the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germany took the lead in the Second Industrial Revolution. Technical inventions and communications shape a new world, particularly illustrated by photography and its diffusion through…
