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Vintage albumen print photograph signed Bonfils
The Bazaar of Jaffa, Palestine
The port of Jaffa has been, since antiquity, one of the stops on the trade route between the Mediterranean basin and East Asia.
At the end of the 19th century, Jaffa was the largest Arab settlement in Palestine.
Felix Bonfils was a French photographer (1831 - 1885). He learned photography from Niepce de Saint-Victor, nephew of Nicéphore Niepce.
He opened his photographic studio in 1867 in Beirut, Lebanon, where he specialized in the architecture and landscapes of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece.
Felix BONFILS (1831-1885) Bazaar of Jaffa, signed c.1870
Vintage albumen print photograph signed Bonfils
The Bazaar of Jaffa, Palestine
The port of Jaffa has been, since antiquity, one of the stops on the trade route between the Mediterranean basin and East Asia.
At the end of the 19th century, Jaffa was the largest Arab settlement in Palestine.
Felix Bonfils was a French photographer (1831 - 1885). He learned photography from Niepce de Saint-Victor, nephew of Nicéphore Niepce.
He opened his photographic studio in 1867 in Beirut, Lebanon, where he specialized in the architecture and landscapes of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece.