Marie Lydie Cabanis
1870 (ca)
Bedouin Women, Jerusalem

Albumen print
11 x 8 3/4 ins
 
Archive Farms
Publication: Remembrances of The Near East: The Photographs of Bonfils, 1867-1907, George Eastman House, Rochester, 1980, fig 164
 
Rosenblum, Naomi, A World History of Photography, Abbeville Press, New York, 1997, pg 345
 
Other Collections: Harvard Semitic Museum
 
Notes: Félix Bonfils, a French printer who migrated from France to Beirut along with his family in 1867, established one of the first professional photographic studios in the Middle East. Very little is known about women photographers in the region. Félix's wife, Lydie Bonfils, can be considered the first professional woman photographer in the region.
 
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