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Belle Époque Picture Postcards of Urban Statues Marjan Sterckx & Leen Engelen Published Online: 28 Oct 2013 This article was downloaded by: [KU Leuven University Library] On: 29 October 2013, At: 06:58 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK History of Photography Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/thph20 Between Studio and Snapshot: Belle Époque Picture Postcards of Urban Statues Marjan Sterckx & Leen Engelen Published online: 28 Oct 2013. 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Firstly, we analyse the conventions of in situ photography of public sculpture in light of the genre’s reliance on painterly and photographic traditions, as well as its adoption of visual strategies derived from amateur and snapshot photography. Secondly, we explore the role of the photographic mise-en-sce`ne of picture post- cards in constructing an ideological as well as visual perspective on public monu- ments and the cityscape. The in situ photography of urban statues for picture postcards can be regarded as a photographic genre at the intersection of docu- mentary art reproduction practices and amateur photography of the city. Email for correspondence: Moreover, the picture postcards discussed in this essay confirm and propagate [email protected], leen.engelen@soc. dominant discourses on the monument and the cityscape, even if at the same time kuleuven.be such visions were challenged. In the case of Brussels, the postcards demonstrate a preference for a monumental, impressive cityscape, worthy of representing the 1 – Geraldine Johnson and Joel Snyder Belgian nation and capable of legitimising it through views of sculpture as a grand mention in situ photography of public art, serving the worship of grands hommes. sculpture, but do not delve further into the subject. See Geraldine A. Johnson, ‘“All Keywords: Euge`ne Simonis (1810–82), picture postcard, monument, in situ photo- Concrete Shapes Dissolve in Light”: graphy, snapshot, amateur, belle e´poque, Brussels, cityscapes, art reproduction Photographing Sculpture from Rodin to Brancusi’, The Sculpture Journal, 15:2 (2006), 199–222; Joel Snyder, ‘Nineteenth- Century Photography of Sculpture and the Sculpture was one of the first subjects to attract photographers, as is clear from the Rhetoric of Substitution’, in Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third earliest photographs by Louis-Jacques-Mande´ Daguerre, Hyppolite Bayard, or Dimension, ed. Geraldine A. Johnson, William Henry Fox Talbot; and while much has been written about the relations Downloaded by [KU Leuven University Library] at 06:58 29 October 2013 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press between sculpture and photography, images taken in situ of public sculpture 2006, 21–34; and Geraldine A. Johnson, The remain understudied.1 Photographs such as those of ancient monumental sculp- Very Impress of the Object: Photographing Sculpture from Fox Talbot to the Present ture taken in Egypt by Maxime Du Camp, of (neo)gothic sculpture on French Day, Leeds: Henry Moore Institute 1995. cathedrals by Henry Le Secq, or of the eighteenth-century sculptures in the parks 2 – The Parisian Fonds Debuisson is a pri- of Versailles and the Tuileries by Euge`ne Atget are well known and studied. vate collection of picture postcards of pub- Pictures of nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century urban statues, however, lic statues in France. See Philip Ward- Jackson, ‘Review of Roxane and France are rarely reproduced or written about in publications on photography. Yet this Debuisson’s “A` nos grands hommes”’, The niche within art reproduction is found with remarkable frequency on postcards Sculpture Journal, 15:2 (2006), 301–3; and from the belle e´poque era (ca. 1890–1914), the golden age of the picture postcard. ` Marjan Sterckx, ‘“A nos grands hommes”: Picture postcards of statues in cities and towns make possible the dissemina- een imaginair museum van publieke beeld- houwkunst’, FotoMuseum Magazine,34 tion in space of objects that are themselves non-portable. Consequently, such (2006), 42–5. The present article is based on postcards are still widely accessible in both public and private collections world- the private collections of the authors, as well wide.2 They can be found for sale at flea markets, and are also digitally available on as the large Belfius (former Dexia) Bank websites and in specialised online shops, forming a worldwide ‘imaginary museum’ collection in Brussels, which contains approximately eighty thousand postcards (to borrow Andre´ Malraux’s 1947 phrase) of public statues. Until recently, little covering all of the Belgian communes. scholarly attention had been paid to picture postcards. They are not valued as art History of Photography, Volume 37, Number 4, November 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2013.839532 # 2013 Taylor & Francis Marjan Sterckx and Leen Engelen or even as photography, mainly because the pictures remain for the most part anonymous, are seldom visually striking, and were made for commercial publish- ers. All this holds true for the specific category of picture postcards of public 3 monuments as well. However, with the growth of visual and popular culture 3 – Ellen Handy discusses photographic studies, postcards are beginning to receive critical attention.4 reproductions on museum postcards as a This article addresses two main questions. The first is to what extent the visible sign of canon formation, but does not fully discuss their formal features. See photographs can be said to form a genre in their own right, indebted to photo- Ellen Handy, ‘Outward and Visible Signs: graphic and painterly visual traditions, but also embracing new features from Postcards and the Art–Historical Canon’, in amateur and snapshot photography. Secondly, we examine whether the photo- Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, graphic mise-en-sce`ne to be found on picture postcards of public statues demon- ed. David Prochaska and Jordana Mendelson, University Park, PA: strates a particular perspective on the nineteenth-century and early-twentieth- Pennsylvania State University Press 2010, century public monument and cityscape, via the selection, arrangement and 120–32. approach the photographer takes to the subject. In other words, what can belle 4 – See also J. O. Ostman, ‘The Postcard as e´poque postcards of nineteenth-century public sculptures tell us about the dis- Media’, Text, 24:3 (2004), 423–42; Anne Nishimura Morse, J. Thomas Rimer and course of that time on the monument, the cityscape, and the nation, and how did Kendall H. Brown, Art of the Japanese they contribute to it? Postcard: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection Next to other examples from the belle e´poque, we analyse a series of photo- at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston: graphic postcards of the monument to Godfrey of Bouillon (1848) in Brussels, by MFA Publications 2004; Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard, ed. Jeff L. Rosenheim, the sculptor Euge`ne Simonis, to illustrate to what extent the photographer, in Go¨ttingen: Steidl and New York: The making decisions on the mise-en-sce`ne of the photograph, was guided by usages Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009; Lynda governing the photographic reproduction of sculpture, practices from the tradition Klich and Benjamin Weiss, The Postcard of painting, and contemporary discourse on the role of monuments in urban Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, London: Thames and Hudson public spaces to visualise the nation. Simonis’s centrally located, romantic-style 2012. equestrian statue – one of the first commissioned by the new nation-state of Belgium, founded in 1830 – was by 1890 a common subject for picture postcards,
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