La Maison Bonfils. Une aventure photographique entre Cévennes et Moyen-Orient Islam Athens and elsewhere

Athens and elsewhere

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La Maison Bonfils. Une aventure photographique entre Cévennes et Moyen-Orient Islam Athens and elsewherePresent in numerous national and international collections, the photographs of the Maison Bonfils constitute one of the most important photographic productions devoted to the Middle East in the second half of the 19th century. The Bonfils family set up a photographic studio in 1860 in Saint Hippolyte du Fort then in Als before settling in Beirut in 1867 and traveling through Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, in order to capture and market