Illustrators
A wide range of print publications flooded public and private spaces during the war. Illustrators participated heavily, often by portraying the official nationalist and anti-German mood. Major press publications like L’Illustration or Les Annales distributed engravings, officer portraits, battle scenes and scenes from behind the lines, while patriotic publishers like Berger-Levrault published collections of etchings. Propaganda posters covered the city’s walls and also appeared on humbler media such as post cards or vignettes. They were often distributed by charitable organizations, whose sponsorship of non-enlisted artists in these lean years was greatly appreciated. Illustrators also applied their talents to posters and programs for official ceremonies and national loans. Despite censorship by the notorious "Anastasie", some illustrations reveal a more detached view of current events and daily life, particularly in press caricatures and satirical newspapers like La Baïonnette and Le Rire Rouge. All illustrators present in the ABC chapters appear here in alphabetical order.
