The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisc

In the years following the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experi

This book examines the sub-genre of prehistoric-themed paintings and how it captured the imagination of French academic painters from the 1880s to early 1900s.

The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of op