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KARL BODMER, INDIAN PAINTER, GALERIE CO

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Photographic Images Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 375.00 USD
KARL BODMER, INDIAN PAINTER, GALERIE CO
The "Galerie Contemporaine" was a major cultural and photo-historical venture, published in France from 1876 to 1884. It was issued usually twice a year, and eventually amounted to 13 bound volumes. It contained informative texts about major (mostly French) cultural, political and military figures from the period It is an interesting record of how the contemporaries were viewed in this time. It utilized the Woodburytype process, an exceptionally rich and stable photomechanical printing process that allowed for many excellent continuous-toned prints, basing these on portraits by some of the major portrait photographers of the period, and so has a place in the art of photography as well as its popularization. I have selected a series of vital out-of-the-ordinary subjects. I'll begin with one of the most important one from the U.S. perspective, the Swiss painter Carl Bodmer. Bodmer accompanied Prince Maximilian on an adventurous trip to the U.S. in 1833-34. On this trip he produced the first major representations of many North American Indians. He exhibited these in Paris in 1836. This profile is 4 1/2" x 3 3/8" on a larger sheet imprinted on both sides with information about Bodmer's other artistic activities. [3]
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