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| Keywords: Ernest Eugène Appert, Exécution des otages, prison de la Roquette, le 24 mai 1871.jpg en Following France ™s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of Napoleon III thousands of Parisians revolted against the new royalist-leaning government and declared Paris an independent commune Weeks of fighting ensued during which Versailles troops attacked the city while the Communards threw up barricades shot hostages and burned government buildings Soon afterward Appert a Parisian portrait photographer issued Crimes of the Commune a tendentious series of nine photographs of the insurrection that emphasized the criminal brutality of the rebels Although based on real events the photographs were utterly fabricated Appert hired actors to restage each scene in his studio then cut and pasted the figures onto the appropriate backgrounds; atop the actors ™ bodies he pasted headshots of the Commune ™s key participants The photographs were later banned by the French government for disturbing the public peace by sustaining anti-Communard sentiments ”a testament to their effectiveness as political propaganda fr Exécution de six otages dans la cour de la prison de la Roquette 1871-05-24 Albumen silver print from glass negative Sheet 36 x 46 cm 14 3/16 x 18 1/8 in Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line Joyce F Menschel Photography Library Fund 2012 302335 accession number 2012 352 10 PD-100 Ernest-Eugène Appert Prison de la Roquette Firing squad Paris Commune photographs Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Semaine Sanglante Executions in France | ||||
