Marc DonnadieuDestins croisés

Between fascination, inspiration and questioning, Destins croisés explores the web of relationships between the expansion of the railways, the advent of cinema and the experiments of the artistic avant-gardes through an exceptional collection of photographs (Adolphe Braun, Alfred Stieglitz, Roger Parry, O.
Winston Link, Ella Maillart, Sabine Weiss, René Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Jean Mohr, Bernard Plossu), films (the Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès, Abel Gance, Charlie Chaplin) and paintings or drawings (Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Klee, Aloïse Corbaz, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Ceija Stojka). Over the course of fifteen chapters, the book travels through the fabric of tracks, tunnels and bridges in Europe and elsewhere; discovers emblematic places such as Saint-Lazare and the Pont de l’Europe in Paris or the EL lines in New York; analyses the complexity of the social relationships specific to stations and carriages; retraces the struggles and fights of those who work for the railways; and reveals new points of view from other forms of travel.