Nicolas Bouvier iconographe. Bretagne particularly bakeries

particularly bakeries

an attentive observer had named it the "Lagny group

drawing on family and public archives

presented in 2004 at the Saint-Romain-en-Gal museum

social circumstances

Nicolas Bouvier iconographe. Bretagne particularly bakeriesRenowned as a travel writer, Nicolas Bouvier (1929 1998) spent most of his life as an iconographer, traveling less to distant roads than to libraries, museums, and archives to unearth images. From the early 1960s to the dawn of the Internet, he played an active role in the growth and recognition of a profession that, for half a century, was an essential link in the production of illustrated publications. This book recalls the importance of this work