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collaboration for which Girardin, in the 1830s, will create a home in the feuilleton.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y consist of individual sketches, whose anecdotal form corresponds to<br />

the panoramas' plastically arranged foreground, and whose informational base<br />

corresponds to their painted background. This literature is also socially panoranlic.<br />

For the last tilne, the worker appears, isolated from his class, as part of the<br />

setting in an idyll.<br />

Announcing an upheaval in the relation of art to technology, panoramas are at<br />

the sarne time an expression of a new attitude toward life. <strong>The</strong> city dweller, dweller,<br />

whose political supremacy over the provinces is attested many tinles in the<br />

course of the century, attempts to bring the countryside into town. In panoramas,<br />

d,e city opens out, becoming landscape-as it will do later, in subder fashion, for<br />

the flilneurs. Daguerre is a student of me panoranla pillnter Prevost, whose establishment<br />

is located in the Passage des Panoramas. Description of the panoramas<br />

of Prevost and Daguerre. In 1839 Daguerre's panorama burns down. In the same<br />

year, he announces the invention of the daguerreotype.<br />

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