Baudelaire and Photography

While Baudelaire''s ''Le Peintre de la vie moderne'' is often cited as the first expression of our theory of modernism, his choice of Constantin Guys as that painter has caused consternation from the moment of the essay''s publication in 1863. Worse still, in his ''Salon de 1859'', Baudelaire had also chosen to condemn photography in terms that echo to this day. Why did the excellent critic choos...