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Bedouins Resting with their Camels in the Desert, 1880's

The figure in the foreground is at prayer. Site unknown

PHOTOGRAPHER: FELIX BONFILS, 1831 - 1885

The signature “Bonfils” appears on thousands of photographs taken by three members of the Bonfils family; Felix (father), Lydie (mother), Adrien (son) and possibly one Abraham Guiragossian, an Armenian, who took over the Bonfils studio in Beirut about 1907 and ran it until 1932. Felix and Lydie went to Beirut in 1867 from France and worked together until son Adrien joined them in 1877. When Turkey declared war on France, Adrien was imprisioned and Lydie deported to Cairo. Guiragossian continue to manage the Beirut studio, maintaining the name “Bonfils,” selling prints from Bonfils negatives and possibly signing that name to his own work.

• Image size  6.5" x 5"
  

• Mount size 9.5" x 7.5 "
  

• Acid free mount
  

• Full description of the photograph
  

• Details and history of photographer
  

• Cellophane wrapped
  

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