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Vue prise de la Tour du Séraskiérat "View taken from the Serasker or Beyazit Tower".
1875170484Constantinople c.1875. A superb photographic panorama A panoramic 360-degree view of the city. Towards the Golden Horn the Topkapi Palace and the city's great mosques can be seen including Hagia Sophia the Blue Mosque the Yeni Mosque and the Süleymaniye. Panoramas of this period usually favour the Galata Tower as a vantage point. The view is unsigned though likely from the studios of Pascal Sébah and Policarpe Joaillier or the Swede Guillaume Berggren. Both are renowned for their handsome panoramas of the city. In 1857 Sébah opened one of the first photographic studios in Constantinople. The business was taken over by his son Jean in 1883 who styled himself J. Pascal Sébah and went on to become a talented photographer in his own right. In 1888 he partnered with Policarpe Joaillier their firm becoming the official photographers of the Sultan. "From the 1870s Sébah and Joaillier were major suppliers of evocative imagery to the increasing number of people who undertook the Victorian Grand Tour" Hannavy p. 1261. Berggren moved to Constantinople in 1866 and opened his studio on Grand Rue de Pera in the early 1870s. His oeuvre included studio work a remarkable series of documentary portraits of working people and the eternalising of the construction of the Anatolian Railway. Oblong quarto concertina 290 x 255 mm. Comprising 8 mounted albumen prints each 165 x 248 mm together approximately 165 x 1984 mm mounts captioned in manuscript red and blue ink. Contemporary dark brown pebbled paper over bevelled boards later blue paper on verso of mounts. Minor loss to corners and edges of boards a few surface scratches; prints yellowed and faded in margins some a little creased at folds: a very good example. John Hannavy ed. Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography Vol. I 2005; Engin Özendes From Sebah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah: Orientalism in Photography 2004. hardcover
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni4 000,00 £GB≈ 4 567,20 €
