Gustave Le Gray
Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
Gustave Le Gray's Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons is an exceptional album containing 66 albumen prints documenting a military camp and its personnel. This comprehensive photographic archive represents one of the earliest sustained documentary photography projects.
- Medium
- A unique album of 66 albumen prints (44 scenes and 22 portraits) from wet-collodion negatives, mounted to album pages. Fifty-six with red ink facsimile signature stamps and 4 smaller prints with red ink credit stamps, all on the recto; 38 annotated, possibly by Regnaud, in blue ink on the mounts. The majority mounted one-per-page. Oblong folio, dark green leather with gilt embossed title, date, dedication and imperial arms on front cover.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
May 25, 2022
Spotted works by Gustave Le Gray
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