Transmission

12-2015

Uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 23rd march 2015

Studios Robespierre

"Il cherchait ; et savait d'ailleurs, ce qui ne faisait qu'accroître son inquiétude,qu'il lui fallait aussi, cherchant, ne plus savoir qu'il cherchait,... oublier la questionautant que l'angoisse : car l'angoisse figure ce qu'elle craint, et la réflexion estmémoire... et pendant ce temps-là des nuages s'amoncelaient dans le ciel, il lesvoyait par la porte ouverte, formant à l'horizon, sur de grands tréteaux rouges, lesigne précurseur de cette heure mystérieuse où, à cause de trop d'images, cesseraitd'un coup la conscience."

(Yves Bonnefoy, “L’Artiste du dernier jour”).

Contents of transmission number 12-2015 (“too many images”) :

a reduced number of albumen and silver prints

a few auctions for march and april

The covers you have missed

n°101

NumberTwelve of the weekly bulletin has been uploaded on monday, 23th March at 15:15 (Paris time).

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Semaine 12 : 23-29 mars 2015

Palais-Royal daguerreotypist (attr.)Alcide ChevallierParis, circa 1845

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, original mount, red cloth, 20th century paperlabel at reverse with identification.

Etienne Alcide CHEVALLIER, (1818-1891) may have posed for this portraitin a happy occasion, as he got married in 1845 : “Etienne AlcideCHEVALLIER est né ... 1818, à des parents Louis Pierre CHEVALLIER andMadeleine Thérèse CHEVALLIER (née GEROSME). Louis est né en 1786.Madeleine est née en 1788. Etienne a épousé Mélanie Eléonore ZoéCHEVALLIER (née VOIZOT) en 1845, à l'âge de 26 ans. Ils ont eu 5 enfants:Dominique Firmin Louis Paul CHEVALLIER, Etienne Léon CHEVALLIER et 3autres enfants” (From genealogical research).

800 euros

Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015

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Semaine 12 : 23-29 mars 2015

Émile Pecarrère (1816-1904)

Mausoleum, North Face

Glanum, St Remy, 1852

Calotype, unmounted, signed innegative

The Mausoleum of the Julii,located across the Via Domitia, tothe north of, and just outside thecity entrance, dates to about 40BCE, and is one of the bestpreserved mausoleums of theRoman era... The lowest part ofthe mausoleum is decorated withcarved garlands of vegetation,theater masks and cupids or putti,and with mythical or legendaryscenes.

North face : a battle of horsemen,and a winged victory carries atrophy.

SEX · M · L · IVLIEI · C · F · PARENTIBVS · SVEIS Sextius, Marcus and Lucius Julius, sons of Gaius, to their forebears

1.200 euros

Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015

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Charles Hugo (1826-1871)Général Mészáros dans “sa pelisse donnée par le Sultan”Jersey, spring 1853

Calotype, 102x78 mm, unmounted.

General Lázár Mészáros (1796-1858), was the Minister of War during the1848 Hungarian Revolution... After the Battle of Temesvár and the ensuingfailure of the war of independence, he left Hungary on 14 August 1849 forTurkey. About 1.500 refugees were listed and when Turkey rejected theirextradition, the Russians hinted the threat of a war, the English and theFrench promised to help Turkey in case of a conflict...

Mészáros left Turkey in May 1851. He settled at first in France, which heleft upon Napoleon III's coup d'état in December 1851. He went to the Isleof Jersey to meet Victor Hugo who organised a photographic studio.

In the summer of 1853, Mészáros moved to the United States, where hetried farming in Iowa, and eventually settled in Flushing, New York.

In October 1858, a short time before his death,Mészáros returned to England. (Cf. Dr GyörgyCsorba, Hungarian Emigrants of the 1848-1849in the Ottoman Empire).

A variant in the Jersey album at Orsay : Françoise Helbrun et Quentin Bajac, Encollaboration avec le soleil, Victor Hugo,photographies de l’exil, Paris, 1998, p. 128.

General Mészàros travelling in Jersey with his personnal hookah

4.000 euros

Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015

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Semaine 12 : 23-29 mars 2015

Eugène DisdériUrban Marine Paris, 1857

Rich albuminized print from acollodion negative, 179x242mm, intriguing defect andcollage in the trees.

Provenance : Edmond Lebelarchive.

Before Photoshop

2.500 euros

Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015

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Semaine 12 : 23-29 mars 2015

Alexander Shemlaiev (born 1956)Warlike ChukchaWestern Chukotka, 1989

Vintage silver print, 215x145 mm, probably unique, no edition was done.

Schemlaïev Alexander was born in 1956 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur ineastern Siberia. After the military school and the Polytechnic Institute, hebecame a bookseller, and at the same time worked as taxi driver, and sportscoach, to have money to realize his photos. In 1983, he moved to Novo-Kousnetsk and binds with the photo club Trio (Sokolajev, Vorobjov andTrifinov). This club was unfortunately dissolved by the KGB in the lateBrezhnev era for selling prints of foreigners and an exhibition in the outsideworld.

Provenance : Center for Art and Design, Moscow, 1991

150 euros

Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015

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Alexander Shemlaiev (born 1956)Laughing ChukchaWestern Chukotka, 1989

Vintage silver print, 215x145 mm, probably unique, no edition was done.

Chukchi, the native people of Chukotka, the most remote northeast cornerof Russia, are a common minority targeted for generic ethnic jokes inRussia.[11] In jokes, they are depicted as generally primitive, uncivilizedand simple-minded, but clever in a naive kind of way. A propensity forconstantly saying "odnako" — equivalent to "however" depending oncontext — is a staple of Chukcha jokes.

A Chukcha comes into a shop and asks: "Do you have color TVs?" "Yes, wedo." "Give me a green one."

Provenance : Center for Art and Design, Moscow, 1991

"Give me a green one."

150 euros

Week 12 : March 23-29, 2015

24 avril

a few auctions for march and april

Littérature, musique, photographiedescriptions : Devroe & StubbeThe Romantic Agonyfriday 24th + saturday 25th april at 1 pm40 rue de l’Aqueduc - Bruxelles http://www.romanticagony.com/en/catalogue

a few auctions for march and april

Objets d’art, tableaux, photographies des années 1920expert : Rhinocéros & CieBinoche & Giquellofriday 27th march at 2.15 pmDrouot Richelieu - Salle 1 http://www.binocheetgiquello.com/flash/index.jsp?id=22561&idCp=33&lng=fr

27 mars

25 mars

Collection Pierre Marc Richardexperts et présentation : Marion et Philippe JacquierBeaussant Lefèvrewednesday 25th march at 1.30 pmDrouot Richelieu - Salle 2 http://www.beaussant-lefevre.com/html/infos.jsp?id=21820&lng=fr

The covers you have missed

Transmission

12-2015

uploaded at 3.15 pm monday 23rd march 2015

Studios Robespierre

n°102

The covers you have missed

Transmission

12-2015

uploaded at 3.15 pm monday 23rd march 2015

Studios Robespierre

n°103