10 photographs by the photographer Felix Bonfils. Land of Israel, end of the 19th century.
A street in the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem, Pool of Bethesda by the Lions' Gate in Jerusalem, Jericho, the Shiloah, Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, Kfar Kana, Motza, Bethlehem - general view, Hebron - general view, A camel and its rider. The photographs are all signed in the plate "Bonfils".
Felix Bonfils [1831-1885], The great 19th-century photographer of the Land of Israel "What is unique about Bonfis' work is the rare quality of the photographs. The landscape, even the most sterile, becomes an artist-created work by the uncompromising angle of photography" [First Eretz Israel Photography edited by Eli Schiller and Menachem Levin, p. 92]. In the foreword to the album "Memories from the East" (published in 1877, one of Bonfils' most famous works that included hundreds of original photos of the Holy Land and the Orient), the president of the French Society for Literature and Science wrote: "The photos of F. Bonfils are one of the greatest achievements of our generation... the man who took upon himself an expansive work Made an unbelievably important service to science with countless risks...".
Same size: 28x23 cm. Some are attached to a hard substrate for preservation. General Condition Good.
