Paris and the Cliché of History
The City and Photographs, 1860-1970
Catherine E. Clark
Reviews and Awards
Winner of the 2018-2019 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
"A compelling and original study that offers historians a rationale and a template for taking images, their meanings, and their production seriously." -- Daniel J. Sherman, Journal of Modern History
"Paris and the Cliché of History is an impressive and thought-provoking interdisciplinary intervention in the historiography of Paris,photography, the illustrated press, and other related fields." -- H. Hazel Hahn
"Paris and the Cliché of History--The City and Photographs, 1860-1970 makes for such an astute, vibrant and altogether fascinating read." -- David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews
"This extensively researched and elegantly written study exemplifies the best in the "visual turn" in scholarly history ... Essential." --CHOICE