Original photograph of Eugène Brieux.

Manuel, Henri (1874-1947)

Published by Paris: Circa 1920s

About this Item

Silver print. 24 x 18cm. Eugène Brieux, (born January 19, 1858, Paris, France?died December 6, 1932, Nice), French dramatist, one of the leading exponents of the realist drama, whose somewhat didactic works attacked the social evils of his day.Henri Manuel (24 April 1874, Paris ? 11 September 1947, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a Parisian photographer who served as the official photographer of the French government from 1914 to 1944.Provenance from the Collection of Thérèse Bonney : Educated at Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, and the Sorbonne, Bonney settled in Paris in 1919 to pursue photography and promote cultural exchange between France and the United States. The outbreak of World War II appalled Bonney, who believed the conflict threatened European civilization itself. Of her "truth raids" into the countryside to document the horror of war, Bonney said: "I go forth alone, try to get the truth and then bring it back and try to make others face it and do something about it."Not content with publishing solely in mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, Bonney sought other opportunities to present her work. She published the photo-essay books "War Comes to the People" (1940) and "Europe's Children" (1943) and mounted one-woman shows at the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and dozens of museums overseas. Bonney's concept for a film about children displaced by war became the Academy Award- winning movie, "The Search" (1948). A media star herself, Bonney was the heroine of a wartime comic book, "Photofighter.".Expertise by: Ségolène Beauchamp, 86bis rue de Bellébat, 45000 Orléans - and Pierre Prévost, 75 rue Michel Ange, 75016 Paris . Seller Inventory # 51-4607

Bibliographic Details

Title: Original photograph of Eugène Brieux.

Publisher: Paris: Circa 1920s

Condition: Good