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EDMOND HAMEL | PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AROUND MEXICO CITY, 1903-1919

Auction Closed

November 8, 04:55 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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EDMOND HAMEL

actif 1903 - 1919

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AROUND MEXICO CITY, 1903-1919


un album comprenant 56 tirages, chacun monté sur carton, dans une varieté de procédés: tirages au bromoil, tirages argentiques et au platine

certains tirages signés et datés au recto

ce lot inclue également 9 photographies sur des feuillets volants


an album containing 56 prints, each mounted on card, in a variety of process: bromoil, silver gelatin and platinium. A few of them are signed and dated on recto.

This lot also includes 9 loose prints.


tailles variables / various sizes

album: 13 x 17½x 3⅛in.; 33 x 44,5 x 8 cm

This wonderful album of pictorialist photographs is to our knowledge unique. Most of the photographs were taken in and around Mexico City between 1903 and 1919. All are attributed to Edmond Hamel, a French national living in Mexico. Little is known about the photographer. He might have learned photography in France before settling in Mexico in 1903. Hamel is listed as a “carroceria” (a coachbuilder) in Mexico City in 1903. He stayed there until at least 1919.