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Meanwhile, the mass press was enjoying ever-increasing success. Millions of copies were printed, and the tragic stories of crimes or disasters of all kinds piqued the public's curiosity. Blood sold. And people wanted to see the event. So, reporter cartoonists illustrated many of these horrors on the front page. They imagined the unbearable scenes of the serial killer Troppman (eight victims) or sketched the wars of the time on the ground. But after the inventions of Louis Daguerre in 1839 and Edouard Belin in 1908, the press was finally able to seize the photo as a new guarantee of credibility, and an additional sales argument.

In 1912, Jean Dupuis, the owner of of the “Miroir”. This magazine will offer you “ the lived document ”, he wrote.



Irresistible! If only two years ago, Jean moj database Lafitte had launched "L'excelsior". A "daily illustrated" with thirty or so photos for each issue. Normal, since "his photographers are everywhere" as the advert of the time said. A bit like those cell phones, always there to capture god knows what.



So, if we add "L'Illustration" and "La vie illustrée", we can say that at the dawn of the 1920s, photojournalism was born.