Nadar : les années créatices, 1854-1860 / [organisée par la Réunion des musées nationaux/Musée d'Orsay et le Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York ; avec le concours de la Bibliothèque nationale de France]
50 ans de photographie de presse : archives photographiques de Paris-Soir, Match, France-Soir / Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, Mairie de Paris, Direction des affaires culturelles ; Thomas Michael Gunther, Marie de Thézy
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Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris Search this
Verres de Bohême : 1400-1989, chefs-d'œuvre des musées de Tchécoslovaquie / sous la direction de Sylva Petrová et Jean-Luc Olivié ; photographies de Gabriel Urbanek
Images inventées : la photographie créative belge dans les années 50 : l'art en Belgique Flandre et Wallonie au XXe siècle : un point de vue : manifestation présentée dans le cadre du Mois de la photo
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Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris Search this
Christo : le Pont Neuf empaqueté, Paris, 1975-1985 / photographies de Wolfgang Volz ; commentées par David Bourdon ; le Pont-Neuf et Paris, par Bernard de Montgolfier ; [conception editoriale, Eric Himmel ; traduit de l'anglais par Dominique Férault]
Un si grand âge-- : une exposition / présentée par l'Association Les Petits Frères des pauvres ; texte de Danièle Sallenave ; entretien avec Michel Serres
This accession consists of drawings documenting the design of exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Exhibitions documented in this accession include
"Huguenot Legacy: English Silver, 1680-1760;" "Avant-Garde Letterhead;" "Lace;" "What Could Have Been: Unbuilt Architecture of the 80s;" "Solos: Smartwrap;" "Faberge: Jeweler
to Royalty;" "Art Nouveau Bing: The Paris Style 1900;" "Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office;" "Puppets: Art and Entertainment;" "Russel Wright: Creating
American Lifestyle;" "Fashion in Colors;" "New Hotels for Global Nomads;" "Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum: Furnishing the Modern Era;" "Photography and Architecture:
1839-1939;" "Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture;" "Arches for Galveston;" "Milestones: 50 Years of Goods and Services;" "Under the Sun: An Outdoor Exhibition
of Light;" "Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center;" " Walter Crane: Design for Children;" "Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living;" "Intimate World
of Alexander Calder;" "Turned Wood Bowls;" "Henry Dreyfuss Directing Design: The Industrial Designer and His Work, 1929-1972;" "Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the
Table, 1500-2005;" "Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser;" "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now;" "National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now;" "Rooms with a
View: Landscape and Wallpaper;" "Aluminum by Design: From Jewelry to Jets;" "Field for Dreams: An Eighteenth Century Bedcover;" "Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament;"
"Good Offices and Beyond;" "Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design;" "Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention;" "Triumph of Simplicity: 350 Years of Swedish Silver;"
"Scandinavian Modern 1880-1980;" "Vienna/New York: The Work of Joseph Urban, 1872-1933;" "American Enterprise: Nineteenth Century Patent Models;" "Jewelry: A Selection from
the Cooper-Hewitt Collection;" "Recollections: A Decade of Collecting;" "Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard;" "Packaging the New: Design and the American Consumer;" "American
Picture Palaces;" "Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design;" "Power of Maps;" "Color Light Surface: Recent Textiles;" "Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource;" "Design
= Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread;" "Erich Mendelsohn: 1887-1953;" "Views of Rome: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of the Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana;" "Bon Voyage! Designs for Travel;" "Hawaii: The Royal Isles;" "Modern Spirit: Glass from Finland;" "Flora Danica and the Heritage of Danish Porcelain;"
"Doghouse;" "Robert Adam and Kedleston Hall;" "The Jacquard Loom: Recent Experiments;" "Unlimited By Design;" "Gardens of Delight;" "Resorts of the Catskills;" "Hair;" "City
Dwellings and Country Houses: Robert Adam and His Style;" "Canes and Walking Sticks;" "Fancy Fronts: Gentlemen's Waistcoats in the Eighteenth Century;" "Chicago Furniture:
Art, Craft and Industry;" "Courts and Colonies: The William and Mary Style in Holland, England, and America;" "Wine: Celebration and Ceremony;" "Golden Eye: An International
Tribute to the Artisans of India;" "Memphis/Milano;" "Immovable Objects: Urban Open Spaces;" "Paris Opera on Stage: Designs, Costumes, Jewels;" "Glass of the Avant-Garde:
From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus;" "L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989;" "Writing and Reading;" "Berlin 1900-1933: Architecture and Design;" "Hollywood:
Legend and Reality;" "Toys from the Nuremburg Spielzug Museum;" "Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America;" "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Building:
Creating a Corporate Cathedral;" and "Arquitectonica: The Times Square Project." Some materials document non-exhibition renovation projects. Materials include floor plans,
concept drawings, elevations, details, and related materials.
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Mounted prints
Photographic prints
Photographs
Date:
circa 1883-1884
Summary:
Photographic portfolios made by Prince Roland Bonaparte in his "Collection Anthropologique" group. The bulk of the collection consists of individual portraits of "Peaux-Rouges" (Omaha Indians), "Kalmouks" (Kalmyks), "Hindous" (Hindus), "Hottentots" (Khoikhoi), Somalis, "Atchinois" (Acehnese), and Surinamese. There are also some images of clothing, dwellings and animals, including camels and horses.
Scope and Contents note:
The collection is comprised of nine photographic albums (two are duplicates) of Omaha, Chinese, Kalmyk, Hindu, Hottentot, Somali and Surinamese people that were assembled by Prince Roland Bonaparte and published in a series of albums entitled the "Collection Anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte". Many of the photos were undertaken at various international exhibitions of the late nineteenth century: the Kalmyk and Omaha photographs were executed in Paris at the Jardin d'Acclimatation (1884) and the Hindu, Somali, Surinamese and Chinese photographs were taken during the 1883 Colonial Exposition in Amsterdam.
All of the albums, except for the volume on Surinamese peoples, is comprised of albumen prints. The Surinamese album includes photographs, collotypes, imprints, and text. Each album, except for those of the Hottentot and Surinamese people, is accompanied by an inventory produced by Bonaparte that lists the name, age, job and family lineage of each person.
Arrangement:
Within each series the original order was maintained. The photographs are organized by culture groups into seven series:
Series 1: Omahas
Series 2: Chinese
Series 3: Kalmyks
Series 4: Hindus
Series 5: Khoikhoi
Series 6: Somalis
Series 7: Surinamese
Biographical/Historical note:
Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924) was the grandson of Lucien, the second brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. Forbidden by law to pursue the military career he desired, he turned to geography and other sciences and received anthropological training from Paul Broca. Starting around 1882, he began to create and distribute albums organized by culture group as part of an "anthropological collection of human diversity." He studied the Lapp people in Finland in 1884 and then traveled to Mexico, Canada and, in 1887, the United States to study American Indians. The photograph project ended in the mid-1890s. He also published on other topics including the history of the Dutch colonial empire and glaciers of the French and Swiss Alps.
Bonaparte married Marie Blanc (1859-1882) in 1880 and had a daughter, Princess Marie Bonaparte, in 1882. He served as president of both the Société de géographie (1910-1924) and the Société française de photographie (1920-1922).
Related Materials:
The Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, division of the Collections of Maps and Plans, have related photographs and manuscript materials.
Photo lot 80-52, Prince Roland Bonaparte photograph collection of Omaha, Kalmouk, Hindu, Khoikhoi, Somali and Surinamese peoples, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution