btp 23-2015 (june)

transmission 23 contents

a documented 1844 daguerrian portrait 1

From the bièvres photofair, albumen & silver prints 2-9

nicéphore n°3: Van Gogh on issuu 10

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Transmission 23 1 23rd week 2015

attr. to edme lory (reims daGuerreotypist)Portrait de l’oncle Bastien Debrotonne, 1844

Half-plate daguerreotype, 130x110 mm, original gilded frame, intact verso with dedication:“à madame Gilbert... à Rheims, 1844”, with a later addition: “Oncle Bastien Debrotonne”,printed framer-shop label: ”A. Ponsinet rue du Carrouge, Reims”. Exceptional early Frenchportrait with all intact elements for identification. Edmé Lory received rewards in 1843 forthe quality of his daguerrian portraits, and in 1852 for calotypes (cf. Annales de l’Académiede Reims, 1843, p.93). Cf. 180 chefs-d'oeuvre, BNF, 1980, notice 89. € 2.500


alphonse François jeanrenaud (1835-1895)étude de forêt et de rochers, Fontainebleau, 1861Albumen print, 283x220 mm, on paper mount, two angles cropped in a typical Jeanrenaudstyle. Extremely rare work, they are few comparable prints in Washington (NGA), Paris (Orsay)and Strasbourg (MAMC). “La Commission d'aménagement de la forêt remet un rapport danslequel elle propose d'épargner les futaies et les sites les plus pittoresques pour les artistes etles promeneurs ; répondant à ce vœu, un décret du 13 avril crée la Série artistique (1100hectares mis hors exploitation). Cuvelier à l'œuvre dans les environs de la forêt : vues duchâteau de Fleury. Vues de Delondre, de Gaillard et de Jeanrenaud montrées à Paris (exposi-tion de la SFP)”(Bernard Marbot, BNF). € 2.000


French carte-de-Visite looking out of the frame, 1860s

Albumen print, 435x320 mm, on cdv blank mount. € 200


French pannotypistportrait of a young lady, south-central France, 1860s

Pannotype,148x110 mm, on paper mount. This variant of melainotype or tyntype starts as anambrotype, then the emulsion is transfered from the glass plate to a blackened cloth or a sim-ple piece of cheap leather, creating a dull-toned positive image, unique. “A collodion emulsioncontaining suspended silver halide crystals had to be formed on the plate just before it wasexposed in the camera while still wet. Chemical treatment then reduced the crystals to micro-scopic particles of metallic silver in proportion to the intensity and duration of their exposureto light, resulting in a visible, very underexposed negative image produced in the emulsion.Its densest areas, corresponding to the lightest parts of the subject, appeared gray by reflectedlight. The areas with the least amount of silver, corresponding to the darkest areas of the sub-ject, were essentially transparent and appeared black when seen against the dark backgroundprovided by the lacquer. The image as a whole therefore appeared to be a dull-toned positive.This ability to employ underexposed images allowed shorter exposure times to be used, agreat advantage in portraiture” (Wikipedia). This pannotype is very similar in both productionprocess and final aspect to the Van Gogh in conversation carton photographique. € 300


léon le coq d'herVey de juchereau, marquis de saint-denys (1822-1892)charles albert d'arnoux, comte de limoGes-saint-saëns (1820-1882)

hippolyte bayard (1801-1887)Anthropologie, Japon, collection ethnographique photographiée sous les auspices de la so-ciété d’ethnographie, paris, 1864-1865

Cyanotype from a paper negative, 220x148 mm, captioned : “Anthopologie, Japon, 112, nég.pap.” . Some forty portraits in the “Ethnographic collection photographed under the auspicesof the Society” have been printed by Bertall and Bayard for d’Hervey de Saint-Deys, thenpresident of the Société Éthnographique, to complete the albums published by Pottier. Everyportrait was portrait in 30 copies. Few have survived, this is an artist proof print, documentingthe last chapter of Bayard’s long photographic carriere. € 900


Victor huGo (1802-1885)arsène louis Garnier (1821-1900)hugo portrait, dedicated to m. jules noriac, 12 april 1866

Albumen cdv, 95x58 mm, on printed mount: Garnier Arsène (Guernsey photographer) Hugo’sdedication: “À m. Jules Noriac Victor Hugo, Hauteville House, 12 avril 1866”, ink.

“After December 2 1851 Coup-d’état, Hugo relocated to Brussels, then Jersey, from whichhe was expelled for supporting a Jersey newspaper that had criticised Queen Victoria and fi-nally settled with his family at Hauteville House in Guernsey, where he would live in exilefrom October 1855 until 1870.

He convinced the British government to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terroristactivities and his influence was credited in the removal of the death penalty from the consti-tutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia. His complete archives (published by Pauvert)show also that he wrote a letter asking the USA, for the sake of their own reputation in thefuture, to spare John Brown's life, but the letter arrived after Brown was executed.

Although Napoleon III granted an amnesty to all political exiles in 1859, Hugo declined, andit was only after Napoleon III fell from power September 4, 1870 that Hugo finally returnedto his homeland. He was in Paris during the siege by the Prussian army in 1870, famouslyeating animals given to him by the Paris zoo. As the siege continued, and food became evermore scarce, he wrote in his diary that he was reduced to "eating the unknown".”

In exile, he made a weapon out of photography. € 600


euGène atGet (1857-1927) La Bièvre, boulevard d'Italie, aujourd'hui rue Edmond-Gondinet, 1901

Albumen print, 240x180 mm, numbered “4182” and captioned : “La Bièvre, bould d'Italie,disparu en 1891, aujourd'hui rue Edmond Gondinet, Paris (XIIIème arr.)”, pencil, soft tonality,nice print. “La Folie Neufbourg, built in 1762, was used as a utility room for the hospitals,then served as a hideout to the tobacco smugglers who entered Paris through the Bièvre river.Auguste Rodin installed his workshop in 1886 and lived with Camille Claudel...".

Comparable print at Musée Carnavalet. € 3.000


[man ray] mimmo Frassinetiman ray lighting up a cigar, Fregene near rome, 26 july 1975

Vintage silver print, 304x240 mm, stamped and captioned : “Man Ray. Photo: MimmoFrassineti”. Man Ray was in Italy for an important retrospective in Rome, opening on July1975. “Man Ray a casa di amici a Fregene. Imminente l'inaugurazione di una sua grandemostra al Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma”. € 400


mimmo jodice (born 1934)Pozzuoli, Anfiteatro Favio, from cycle mediterraneo, 1993

Vintage silver print, 300x240 mm, stamped, signed dated and captioned : “Mediterraneo,93’, Pozzuoli, Anfiteatro Flavio, Mediterraneo”, pencil verso. € 1.200


the draFt of nicephore n°3:Le Visage retrouvé de Vincent Van Gogh

is now available on ISSUU.You can pre-order paper copies: 20 euros

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