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Sources

Mick Micheyl, Jean-Baptist Tournassoud's grand-daughter.
Institut Lumière, Jean-Marc Lamotte.
Agnès Bruno, Curator of the Musée Départemental des pays de l'Ain.
Valérie Joxe, Musée Clemenceau.
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, exhibition catalogues.
Museum of the Great War.
Mark Jacobs, Historian and collector of autochromes.
"War's Glorious Art", prefaces by Max Gallo, text by Philippe Garner
Various articles written during some exhibitions of Tournassoud's photographs, quoted in the chapter "Bibliography"

Galleries

Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud - a Portrait

At-5'10, with dark brown hair, blue gray eyes sparkling with intelligence, Jean Tournassoud was a sympathetic and cordial man, an excellent rider, and a brilliant military officer. A true renaissance man, he was well read and self-educated, a poet, writer, photographer and director... Gallery

Military Life

Photography was already a passion for Jean Baptiste Tournassoud when he decided in 1892 to make a career in the army. He would always carry with him his photographic equipment and thus quite naturally he photographed what surrounded him: daily life of the barracks, portraits of soldiers, and horses of his regiment... Gallery

Photographer of Animals

Jean Tournassoud is one of the finest photographers of domesticated animals of the twentieth century. His sharp eye and his sense of anticipation enabled him to produce many exceptional photographs... Gallery

Landscapes, Architecture, Still Lives

Tournassoud is a particularly talented photographer of landscapes. With a manner reminiscent of an impressionist painter, he studies the incidence of natural light on his subject at various hours of the day and at various seasons of the year... Gallery

Life in the Country, Hunting and Fishing

Tournassoud illustrates in his photographs a realistic though often poetic image of daily life in the countryside. Much like an anthropologist, Tournassoud provides revealing details of the life and the habits of his time... Gallery

Short Stories and Scenes of the Traditional Folklore, Gypsies and the Circus

In order to bring life to his photographs, Jean Tournassoud often used a stratagem that he particularly liked: the staging of scenes or constructed narrative photographs... Gallery

Portraits and Family Life

Throughout his career, Tournassoud made many portraits of his friends which included artists, politicians, and military personalities as well as many portraits taken within the intimacy of the family... Gallery

Le Reportage

Wether commission or in his personal work, Major Tournassoud liked to explore his subjects in depth. It was thus usual for him to work in a "series" on a certain subject which very often were published... Gallery