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Exposition Universelle de Paris 1867 Album
2002.R.11  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Biographical/Historical Note
  • Administrative Information
  • Digitized Material
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Exposition Universelle de Paris 1867 album
    Date (inclusive): 1867
    Number: 2002.R.11
    Creator/Collector: Bisson, Auguste-Rosalie, 1826-1900
    Physical Description: 1 album (30 photographs)
    Repository:
    The Getty Research Institute
    Special Collections
    1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
    Los Angeles 90049-1688
    reference@getty.edu
    URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
    (310) 440-7390
    Abstract: Exposition Universelle de Paris 1867 contains 25 photographs taken by Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (Bisson Jeune) and five taken by Charles-Louis Michelez. The album documents the buildings, grounds and exhibits of the 1867 Paris Exposition universelle in Paris.
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    Language: Collection material is in French

    Biographical/Historical Note

    Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, also known as Bisson Jeune (Bisson the younger), was a French photographer. Between 1841 and 1864, he and his elder brother, Louis-Auguste, operated Bisson frères their Paris photography studio.
    Charles-Louis Michelez was a French photographer who had a studio in Paris from 1874 to 1884. He specialized in photographing works of art.
    Pierre Petit was also a French photographer. He learned the daguerreotype process in Paris and then worked in André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri's photography studio. He opened his own studio in Paris in 1862. Napoleon III awarded Petit the exclusive rights to photograph the e867 Paris Exposition universelle. Other French photographers vehemently objected to this award, and they were ultimately given the right to take photographs at the exposition, which ultimately cost Petit 2,000 francs. While Petit is credited on the mounts, he took none of the photographs present in this album.
    and is credited as such on the mounts. However, he took none of the photographs in this album.

    Administrative Information

    Access

    Open for use by qualified researchers.

    Publication Rights

    Preferred Citation

    Exposition universelle de Paris 1867 album, 1867, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2002.R.11.
    http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r11

    Processing History

    The album was cataloged by Michelle Bigelow, who also wrote a preliminary inventory in 2007. The finding aid was revised and encoded by Linda Kleiger and Beth Ann Guynn in 2014.

    Digitized Material

    The collection was digitized by the repository in 2014 and the images are available online:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002r11

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Almost all of the photographs in the album show exhibition building exteriors and interiors devoid of people indicating that the photographs may have been taken before the opening of the exhibition.
    The first photograph in the album, by Bisson, is a panoramic view of the entire exhibition, taken from above. Bisson's other photographs include exteriors of buildings; displays of statuary, paintings, porcelain and crystal; and interior views of the gallery of machines and the gallery of work. A photograph of the Russian gallery includes a row of men in various ethnic costumes standing to one side. Another interior gallery view shows the display of a Polish photographer, Maximilian Fajans of Warsaw; several examples of his work are visible, including portraits of various kinds and landscapes.
    Michelez was known for taking photographs of artworks, and three of his photographs are of the Belgian, French, and Italian displays of paintings and other artworks. Another of Michelez's photographs is an uncaptioned view of horse carriages on a street; the fifth photograph by him is one of the few photographs in the album depicting people and shows a large group of guide-interpreters.
    The album is quarter bound with green cloth covers with the title gilt stamped on the front cover. The mounts bear a letterpress caption above the image: Exposition universelle, 1867 Paris. Centered below each image is a crest with address: Ad on de la Concession, 47 rue Le Peletier. At the bottom left of each image is a caption identifying the photographer of that image, variously: Bisson J ne fecit photo; Michelez fecit photo. At the bottom right of each image is a caption crediting the holder of the imperial commission to photograph the Exposition: Pierre Petit Phot. de la Comm on Impérial. Typeset captions identifying each image are adhered to the lower right corner of the mounts on 29 of the 30 pages.
    Titles are from the captions except for one which is devised.

    Arrangement

    Arranged in a single series: Series I. Exposition Universelle de Paris 1867 album, 1867.

    Indexing Terms

    Subjects - Names

    Michelez, C. (Charles), 1817-approximately 1883
    Petit, Pierre, 1832-

    Subjects - Corporate Bodies

    Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris

    Subjects - Topics

    Exhibition buildings -- Paris -- France
    Exhibitions -- France

    Genres and Forms of Material

    Paris (France) -- Description and travel
    Photographs, Original
    Photograph albums -- France -- 19th century
    Albumen prints -- France -- 19th century

    Contributors

    Bisson, Auguste-Rosalie, 1826-1900