Photographs sale, Hotel Drouot, April 11, 2014 – Etude Christophe Joron-Derem
Etude Christophe Joron-Derem will hold it’s next Photographs sale on Friday April 11th, at Hotel Drouot, Paris, France. Among the offerings, 25 prints of emblematic images by Henri Cartier-Bresson including Dimanche sur les bords de la Marne (1938) as well as images from his travels in Russia, China or his portraits of intellectuals and artists such as Claude Levi-Strauss, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp or Robert Rauschenberg.
Considered the first war reportage in the history of photography, the images of the Crimean War recorded by Roger Fenton in 1855 are a milestone in the development of outdoor photographic techniques. Missioned by the British Crown, the photographer converted a wagon into a darkroom to process his wet collodion negatives. With his imposing view camera, Fenton could only capture static scenes, after the fighting, or take portraits of British, French or Ottoman generals, as those presented in this sale. These salt paper prints, edited by T. Agnew & Sons between 1855 and 1856, still astonish by the quality of their conservation and their historical pertinence.
Other travel photographs include : albumen prints of India by Colonel Henry Dixon, salt paper prints of Algeria, Burma and the Middle East by J.B. Greene, Linnaeus Tripe and Louis De Clercq (including a panorama of Latakieh, in Syria), and portraits of Native Americans Frank by A. Rinehart or Edward Sheriff Curtis.
The sale will offer several lots of photographs of Paris : 19th century prints by Charles Marville, Edouard Denis Baldus or Gustave Le Gray and views from the last century signed Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Izis or Robert Doisneau.
A group of nudes by Lucien Clergue, Sasha Stone, André De Dienes or Bill Brandt will be sold alongside a magnificent signed print by Pierre Molinier : a photo-montage for Le Chaman et ses créatures.
Informations:
Photographies XIXème et XXème siècles
Etude Christophe Joron-Derem
Auction : April 11 avril at 2 pm
Hôtel Drouot (Salle 2)
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris
Exhibitions:
April 10th: 11am – 6pm
April 11th: 11am – noon
Tél.: +33(0)1 48 00 20 02
