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Émile Gsell 
Mnong warriors, Vietnam 
1865 (ca) 
  
Albumen print 
230 x 180 mm (9 x 7 in) 
  
Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books 
Courtesy of Bernard J Shapero Rare Books 
  
 
LL/30102 
  
Emile Gsell (1838 - 1879) was a French photographer who worked in Southeast Asia, becoming the first commercial photographer based in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). He participated in at least three scientific expeditions, and the images he produced from the first, to Angkor, are amongst the earliest photographs of that site. Though he died at an early age he managed to make several hundred photographs in just over a dozen years featuring a wide range of subject matter including architecture, landscapes, and studio, ethnographic and genre portraits. 
 

 
  
 
  
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