Photographies
Photographies
Auction Closed
November 8, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
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.