Jamais deux fois le même regard – Léon Herschtritt (1936-2020)

Photographs of the Collections of the Musée de l'Armée Vincent Giraudier, Carine Lachèvre and Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner

The book « Jamais deux fois le même regard. Léon Herschtritt (1936-2020) : photographies des collections du musée de l’Armée » centered on the photographer’s journey through a selection of photographs that integrates the collections of the Musée de l'Armée, is "The first opus in a series revealing the exceptional chronological, geographical and typological diversity of the Musée de l'Armée’s collections in the coming years, this book honours photography, which, according to Henri Cartier-Bresson, “places head, eye and heart in the same line of sight.” Major General (2S) Henry de Medlege, Director of the Army Museum.

In post-war France, the itinerary of this humanist follows that of a generation of «reporters-illustrators», stimulated by a flourishing press and the dynamic commissions of state organizations, the book explores particularly the period 1958-19581970 with four main axes, the Algerian War, the Berlin Wall, the country of former French Africa, speeches and visits by General de Gaulle to France in the 1960s.

The ambitions of this book are to highlight the photographs of Léon Herschtritt, their importance in the history of photography and to better understand his career as a photographer. Particular care was taken in the photoengraving and printing work by Escourbiac l’imprimeur, in order to reproduce as faithfully as possible the very diverse archives of the Léon Herschtritt background.

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ISBN - 978-2-909478-67-8