L'exposition de Saint-Étienne
An 1891 photographic album, L'exposition de Saint-Étienne, by Marius Vachon, published in Saint-Étienne, France, by Théolier, documenting the city's art and industry exhibition for a general public. The pictures are sepia photographs of machine hall displays, including a gallery of machines and portraits of exhibition officials, with printed French captions. A designer could take from them the dense, mechanical look of late nineteenth-century industrial equipment, with brass gauges, belts, valves and levers photographed head-on and in tight rows.
