1814 MAGAZINE is a limited edition, bi annual publication that focuses on photography, design, art, and culture.
1814 MAGAZINE is dedicated to providing a unique platform for established and emerging artists.
1814 MAGAZINE strives to combine the best in both words and images from some of the greatest photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st century. Recent issues have included such celebrated artists as E.O. Hoppe, Massimo Vitali, Eudora Welty, Bernard Faucon, Donna DeMari, Karlheinz Weinberger as well as Henry Horenstein, Wang Qinsong, Vivian Maier, Georges Dambier, Christer Stromholm, Edward Ruscha, Yves Marchand & Romaine Meffre, Antony Armstrong Jones, Paulina Otylie Surys, Chris Stein, Mel Roberts, and Alexander Gronsky. Known for its clean gallery type presentation and unusual juxtapositions, 1814 MAGAZINE both mirrors and encourages the evolution of photography, art and culture.
The Army of the rue Grenéta - Les Enfants et la Geuerre - Photographs by Leon Gimpel, Courtesy of the Société Francaise de Photographie
In the summer of 1915, as World War I raged into its second year, celebrated photojournalist Leon Gimpel was commissioned by the weekly French newspaper L'Illustration to create rare color photographs of intriguing people around Paris. While searching for just the right subject Gimpel discovered a group of small children from the rue Grenéta who regularly played 'war' and reenacted the battles that were in the news of the day…
