Tag: Felix Bonfils
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Felix Bonfils’ TURKISH LADY, with Footnotes. #104
Félix Adrien Bonfils (8 March 1831 – 1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. He was one of the first commercial photographers to produce images of the Middle East on a large scale and amongst the first to employ a new method of colour photography, developed in 1880. He…
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Felix Bonfils, Port of Beirut 01 Photograph, Marine Art – With Footnotes, #178
The Port of Beirut is the main port in Lebanon located on the eastern part of the Saint George Bay on Beirut’s northern Mediterranean coast, west of the Beirut River. The name of Beirut Port has been mentioned since the fifteenth century BC in the mutual letters of the Pharaohs and the Phoenicians, and during the…
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