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Felix Bonfils

Felix Bonfils (1831 - 1885) was active/lived in France.  Felix Bonfils is known for Middle Eastern scene photography, monuments.

The following information was published by Archaeology magazine, May/June 2001.

The Genius of Félix Bonfils
Volume 54 Number 3, May/June 2001
by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak

Rare images of the monuments of ancient Athens by a nineteenth-century virtuoso

In 1867, Félix Bonfils left his home in the south of France and moved with his wife Lydie and their two young children to Beirut. Félix had some prior knowledge of Lebanon, having served there in the French army. He and Lydie believed that the country's hot, dry climate would be good for their boy, Adrien, who suffered from respiratory ailments. Shortly after their arrival, Félix and Lydie founded one of the best-known and most prolific commercial photographic studios of its time.

The Maison Bonfils, as it came to be called, ultimately made several sizable albums, as well as tens of thousands of individual prints and stereo cards (paired images mounted on a card that, when viewed through a stereoscope, produce   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3228 characters.]  Artist bio

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