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Ten photographs on boards of the studio Nadar "General Office of Photography". Card formats: 12.5 x 10.5 cm with margins and image itself 9 cm in diameter. With one paper overmount with Nadar studio information. Lots of market scenes, animals (camels, donkeys), encampments, buildings, religious, and an image of one of Nadar's traveling companions, yet to be identified.In 1892, Paul Nadar went to Palestine to follow the inauguration of the railway linking Jerusalem to Jaffa. With travel companions Albert Tissandier, Mr. Sauvage, mining engineer, and Mr. Geiser, director of the Polytechnic School of Zurich, Nadar traveled along the Adriatic coast, stopping in Alexandria, Cairo, documenting the opening the laffa-Jerusalem line that joined Lebanon and Syria, and then returning through Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Italy, where his father recommended he visit Etienne-Jules Marey.He particularly used a Kodak No. 2 camera that produced circular views like during his trip to Turkestan. The small batch of photographs in the rectangular BnF collections suggests the use of at least two instant cameras (Détective Nadar).Despite the photographer's abundant correspondence, a malfunction of the posts during the trip, as well as the few images that have come down to us, make this mission one of the most mysterious of Paul Nadar. This set of ten prints is a true discovery on his photographic production in the Middle East.The correspondence of Paul Nadar describing the stages of his journey is preserved in the collections of the National Institute of Art History in Paris."We have seen before us the coast of the islands of Greece, Cephalonia and Crete. The show is splendid, even at night with this sea, which is slightly phosphorescent. Finally, tomorrow I will see palm trees, real palms in the ground. I can not believe it," Paul Nadar wrote to his mother Ernestine Nadar, Alexandria, September 20, 1892."I need volumes to tell you all that is new and interesting here, as everywhere else on this trip," Paul Nadar to his mother Ernestine Nadar, Damascus, October 20, 1892 (Correspondence and papers of Felix and Paul Nadar, NAF 24986-25021, Bibliotheque Nationale France, Department of Manuscripts).

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Ten Views of  Palestine
Ten Views of  Palestine
Ten Views of  Palestine
Ten Views of  Palestine
Paul Nadar Ten Views of Palestine

Price $2,500

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Ten Views of  Palestine
Ten Views of  Palestine
Ten Views of  Palestine
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Ref.# 15983

Medium Kodak No. 2 printing out cabinet card

Mount on original printed mount

Photo Date 1892  Print Date 1892

Dimensions 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. (89 x 89 mm)

Photo Country Palestine

Photographer Country France

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