Taken between between 1890 and 1900, these photochrom images of Honfleur are at once familiar yet remote. We recognise buildings but can only envy the photographer who saw a steam ship dock by the Chenin Blanc hotel, or took a horse drawn carriage ride past la Lieutenance. Photochrom, a method of adding colour
Picture posts
Pictures of something that interests us, that don’t always have a postcard match.
Peasant life in Normandy, by Gertrude Käsebier in 1894 – guest photo blogger!
Rabbit and poultry vendors First published 2017 Today our midweek photo post comes from the small farming community of Cressy in Seine Maritime. Our guest blogger Gertrude Käsebier visited in 1894, while an art student in Paris. Her unique photographs of Normandy country life reveal a world now long lost, a
The war artist, June 1944 in Normandy
Chateau de Sully, near Bayeux, June 1944 by Anthony Gross First published here 2017 Although photographs remember a moment, an event, war artists see the emotion in a war; how people live within it, the minutiae of daily life as they prepare, wait, fight, suffer and celebrate. Faced with the vastness of
