"Il cherchait ; et savait d'ailleurs, ce qui ne faisait qu'accroître son inquiétude, qu'il lui fallait aussi, cherchant, ne plus savoir qu'il cherchait,... oublier la question autant que l'angoisse : car l'angoisse figure ce qu'elle craint, et la réflexion est mémoire... et pendant ce temps-là des nuages s'amoncelaient dans le ciel, il les voyait par la porte ouverte, formant à l'horizon, sur de grands tréteaux rouges, le signe précurseur de cette heure mystérieuse où, à cause de trop d'images, cesserait d'un coup la conscience." (Yves Bonnefoy, “L’Artiste du dernier jour”).
Transmission 12-2015
n°101
Contents of transmission number 12-2015 (“too many images”) : a reduced number of albumen and silver prints a few auctions for march and april The covers you have missed
Uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 23rd march 2015 Studios Robespierre
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Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015
Palais-Royal daguerreotypist (attr.) Alcide Chevallier Paris, circa 1845 Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, original mount, red cloth, 20th century paper label at reverse with identification. Etienne Alcide CHEVALLIER, (1818-1891) may have posed for this portrait in a happy occasion, as he got married in 1845 : “Etienne Alcide CHEVALLIER est né ... 1818, à des parents Louis Pierre CHEVALLIER and Madeleine Thérèse CHEVALLIER (née GEROSME). Louis est né en 1786. Madeleine est née en 1788. Etienne a épousé Mélanie Eléonore Zoé CHEVALLIER (née VOIZOT) en 1845, à l'âge de 26 ans. Ils ont eu 5 enfants: Dominique Firmin Louis Paul CHEVALLIER, Etienne Léon CHEVALLIER et 3 autres enfants” (From genealogical research).
800 euros
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Émile Pecarrère (1816-1904) Mausoleum, North Face Glanum, St Remy, 1852 Calotype, unmounted, signed in negative The Mausoleum of the Julii, located across the Via Domitia, to the north of, and just outside the city entrance, dates to about 40 BCE, and is one of the best preserved mausoleums of the Roman era... The lowest part of the mausoleum is decorated with carved garlands of vegetation, theater masks and cupids or putti, and with mythical or legendary scenes. North face : a battle of horsemen, and a winged victory carries a trophy.
1.200 euros SEX · M · L · IVLIEI · C · F · PARENTIBVS · SVEIS
Sextius, Marcus and Lucius Julius, sons of Gaius, to their forebears
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Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015
Charles Hugo (1826-1871) Général Mészáros dans “sa pelisse donnée par le Sultan” Jersey, spring 1853 Calotype, 102x78 mm, unmounted.
4.000 euros
General Lázár Mészáros (1796-1858), was the Minister of War during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution... After the Battle of Temesvár and the ensuing failure of the war of independence, he left Hungary on 14 August 1849 for Turkey. About 1.500 refugees were listed and when Turkey rejected their extradition, the Russians hinted the threat of a war, the English and the French promised to help Turkey in case of a conflict... Mészáros left Turkey in May 1851. He settled at first in France, which he left upon Napoleon III's coup d'état in December 1851. He went to the Isle of Jersey to meet Victor Hugo who organised a photographic studio. In the summer of 1853, Mészáros moved to the United States, where he tried farming in Iowa, and eventually settled in Flushing, New York. In October 1858, a short time before his death, Mészáros returned to England. (Cf. Dr György Csorba, Hungarian Emigrants of the 1848-1849 in the Ottoman Empire). A variant in the Jersey album at Orsay : Françoise Helbrun et Quentin Bajac, En collaboration avec le soleil, Victor Hugo, photographies de l’exil, Paris, 1998, p. 128.
General Mészàros travelling in Jersey with his personnal hookah
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Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015
Eugène DisdÊri Urban Marine Paris, 1857 Rich albuminized print from a collodion negative, 179x242 mm, intriguing defect and collage in the trees. Provenance : Edmond Lebel archive.
2.500 euros Before Photoshop
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Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015
Alexander Shemlaiev (born 1956) Warlike Chukcha Western Chukotka, 1989 Vintage silver print, 215x145 mm, probably unique, no edition was done. Schemla誰ev Alexander was born in 1956 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in eastern Siberia. After the military school and the Polytechnic Institute, he became a bookseller, and at the same time worked as taxi driver, and sports coach, to have money to realize his photos. In 1983, he moved to NovoKousnetsk and binds with the photo club Trio (Sokolajev, Vorobjov and Trifinov). This club was unfortunately dissolved by the KGB in the late Brezhnev era for selling prints of foreigners and an exhibition in the outside world. Provenance : Center for Art and Design, Moscow, 1991
150 euros
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Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015
Alexander Shemlaiev (born 1956) Laughing Chukcha Western Chukotka, 1989 Vintage silver print, 215x145 mm, probably unique, no edition was done. Chukchi, the native people of Chukotka, the most remote northeast corner of Russia, are a common minority targeted for generic ethnic jokes in Russia.[11] In jokes, they are depicted as generally primitive, uncivilized and simple-minded, but clever in a naive kind of way. A propensity for constantly saying "odnako" — equivalent to "however" depending on context — is a staple of Chukcha jokes. A Chukcha comes into a shop and asks: "Do you have color TVs?" "Yes, we do." "Give me a green one." Provenance : Center for Art and Design, Moscow, 1991
150 euros "Give me a green one."
a few auctions for march and april
Collection Pierre Marc Richard experts et présentation : Marion et Philippe Jacquier Beaussant Lefèvre
a few auctions for march and april
25 mars
wednesday 25th march at 1.30 pm Drouot Richelieu - Salle 2 http://www.beaussant-lefevre.com/html/infos.jsp?id=21820&lng=fr
Objets d’art, tableaux, photographies des années 1920 expert : Rhinocéros & Cie Binoche & Giquello
27 mars
friday 27th march at 2.15 pm Drouot Richelieu - Salle 1 http://www.binocheetgiquello.com/flash/index.jsp?id=22561&idCp=33&lng=fr
Littérature, musique, photographie descriptions : Devroe & Stubbe The Romantic Agony friday 24th + saturday 25th april at 1 pm 40 rue de l’Aqueduc - Bruxelles http://www.romanticagony.com/en/catalogue
24 avril
The covers you have missed
The covers you have missed
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uploaded at 3.15 pm monday 23rd march 2015 Studios Robespierre
uploaded at 3.15 pm monday 23rd march 2015 Studios Robespierre