Life in the Country, Hunting and Fishing

Much like an anthropologist, Tournassoud provides revealing details of the life and the habits of his time. His photographs of scenes of country life show people working in the fields, teams of Perche horses, herds drinking water, goats fighting, oxcarts, a field being plowed, as well as various agricultural activities including some farm equipment, some bales of hay, people sowing and harvesting).

Tournassoud's photographs of people at work (a fisherman repairing his nets, a clog maker, a vine grower and a wine tester, a woman farmer in her barnyard, some lavender fields, several loggers, gardeners, peasants working in their fields, a shepherd with her sheep, some cattlemen and their cows) provide us with the imagery of the dignity of the country life while his hunting scenes (duck hunting, ferret hunting, hares and pheasants, hunting trophies, a hunter and his dog, a hunting horn) and fishing scenes (in the boat or on the shore, a couple of fishermen, children fishing, pond fishing, fish stocking.) remind us of a time before modernity made grocery shoppers of us all.

Finally, scenes of the marketplace represent an inexhaustible source of unique photographs for people who are interested in animals and their care takers: the horse fairs in Montmerle, the poultry market of Bourg en Bresse, the "Glorieuses" (famous markets for Christmas poultries), poultry cooperative of Bourg, loading of poultry in trucks, plucking shop.