The photography in Gustavo Doré’s work during his trip to Spain

Authors

  • Juan Antonio Fernández Rivero Colección Fernández Rivero de Fotografía Histórica, Málaga, España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10010

Keywords:

Photography, Engraving, Illustration, Drawing, Image and Printing, Photography images

Abstract

Gustavo Doré is considered one of the great universal illustrators. Throughout his life he made a very extensive work highlighting especially the work done to illustrate the Bible, the Quixote and the Divine Comedy. In 1862 he embarked on a trip through Spain accompanied by hispanist Charles Davillier. One of his objectives was to be inspired to carry out his work on Don Quixote, but as a result of the trip, several deliveries were published for the magazine Le Tour du Monde, between 1862 and 1873 and, finally, a book, entitled L'Espagne, published in 1874. But what is surprising in this work, and has not been well studied so far, is that Doré, whose work was characterized by an overflow-wing imagination, used numerous photographs for the realization of between 15 and 20% of the engravings that illustrated the magazine and the book.

 

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Author Biography

  • Juan Antonio Fernández Rivero , Colección Fernández Rivero de Fotografía Histórica, Málaga, España

    Degree in Economics from the University of Malaga.

    Since the mid-1980s he began an activity as a researcher and collector of historical photography. As a result, there are numerous publications of books and papers from 1994 to the present, as well as a speaker and lecturer at different events on photographic history. On the other hand, the CFRIVERO Collection has become one of the best private collections on historical photography in Spain, including many of its pieces in publications and exhibitions.

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Published

2020-07-24

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How to Cite

The photography in Gustavo Doré’s work during his trip to Spain. (2020). Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, 21, 289-318. https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10010