Between the lines, behind the images 1903–1930

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In my view, the historian's task is not to ‘make a representation speak’ but to enable a fair confrontation with the present, to ‘make audible’ as best as possible sets of representations/archives. This accuracy requires a writing process that could be described as editing and even hanging/display. Philippe Artières, 2015* At the turning point of the 19th and 20th centuries, Germany leads the Second Industrial Revolution. Technical inventions and communications shape a new world, vividly illustrated by photography and its diffusion through …