Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud

Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud had connections with Auguste and Louis Lumière,
inventors of the autochrome process, and ranks as one of the pioneers
of French photography, working for much of his career as an official photographer
in the army. He took more than 3,000 photographs at the Western front.
Tournassoud’s style is strongly influenced by nineteenth-century Romantic
painting, and the photographs in this series show his fondness for staged tableaux.