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Portrait: Beggars
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1.Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973)
1915 (ca)
Mendiant Afridi [Pakistan]

Gelatin silver print
29 x 20. 5 cm
 
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 476
 
Afridi est le nom d'une tribu pachtoune. Elle est localisée dans la région de la passe de Khyber entre l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan.
 
LL/57248
2.A. Cavilla
1880 (ca)
[Beggar, Tangier, Morocco]

Albumen print
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 314
 
LL/57225
3.A. Cavilla
1880 (ca)
[Beggar, Tangier, Morocco]

Albumen print
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 314
 
LL/57226
4.Carlo Ponti
1893 (before)
An Italian beggar [Mendicante italiano]

Carte de visite, hand-painted
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
LL/58143
5.William Carrick
1860s
Russia[n] Beggar Priest

Carte de visite
4 x 2.5 in (102 x 64 mm)
 
Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs
Courtesy of Carl Mautz
 
(Sergey Maximishin, 26 August 2020) The man is not a priest, but a person authorized to raise money for the needs of the church community, most likely the churchwarden.
 
LL/11987
6.William Carrick
1860s (ca)
Beggar

Carte de visite
Paul Frecker
Russian occupational portrait.
 
LL/12101
7.Unidentified photographer
1865 (ca)
Three young girls begging in Algiers [Trois petites mendiantes à Alger]

Carte de visite
Private collection of Michel Mégnin
LL/29506
8.Bruneau
1865 (ca)
Dreaming around a beggar [Rêverie autour d'un mendiant]

Carte de visite
Private collection of Michel Mégnin
LL/29470
9.C. Portier
1865 (ca)
Two young girls begging in studio [Deux jeunes filles faisant la mendicité en studio]

Carte de visite
Private collection of Michel Mégnin
LL/29474
10.Geiser
1880s
Algerian beggar

Albumen print
20 x 24 cm
 
Private collection of John Toohey
LL/31540
11.Juan Laurent
1870 (ca)
Cordoue. Jeune mendiante devant l'église

Albumen print
25 x 30 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
LL/39984
12.Andrei Karelin
1880 (ca)
Charity

Albumen print
21.6 x 15 cm
 
Artcurial
courtesy of Artcurial (Sale 1170, Lot 183)
 
Location: Nizhny Novgorod (requires confirmation)
 
LL/19542
13.Hippolyte Délié
1865 (ca)
Cairo mendicant or blind man with a ragged sack over his shoulder

Carte de visite
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
H. Delie & Cie. Phot. (Cairo, Egypt)
 
Hippolyte Delié, Cairo, circa 1865. Card imprinted front "H. Delié & Cie. Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Universelle / H. Delié & Cie. / Caire (Egypte) / Succursale de la maison Pierson / Photographe de l'Emperor / Boulevart des Capucines, 3. / Paris."
 
LL/28687
14.J. Geiser
1870 (ca)
Young boy with a beggar in studio [Jeune garçon en haillons avec un vieux mendiant]

Carte de visite
Private collection of Michel Mégnin
Probably James Geiser CDV (Jean Geiser's brother) from an Alary-Geiser negative
 
LL/29469
15.Unidentified photographer
1880 (ca) - 1924
The Country swarms with church beggars [Russia]

Photographic print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection [LC-USZ62-107828]
 
Bearded man, standing, three-quarter length, with box with slot to deposit money, Russia.
 
LL/29787
16.J. Soulan (Bonrepos- Haute-Garonne- France)
1894
Mendiants
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1894, Pl. XLIII bis / XLIII]

Heliogravure / Photogravure
11.2 x 7.8 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
Plate and print by M. Fillon of the ateliers LeMercier & Cie, Paris.
 
Included in the "Première Exposition d'Art Photographique" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1894)
 
LL/46561
17.Dora Maar
1932
Blind Beggar, Barcelona

Gelatin silver print on matte surface paper
11 1/2 x 9 3/8 in
 
Edwynn Houk Gallery
LL/5082
18.Roman Vishniac
1938
Peddlers Transformed into Beggars by the Boycott
10 1/2 x 10 1/2
 
Barry Singer Gallery
© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography
 
LL/3073
19.Peter Bock-Schroeder
1956
Beggar, Bolivia

Gelatin silver print
Peter Bock-Schroeder Photographic Estate
LL/17852
20.Frank Horvat
1962 (taken, later print)
Boy in Beggar's Assembly, Calcutta

Gelatin silver print
15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in (paper)
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 149)
 
Signed in ink on recto.
 
LL/27838
21.Dick Swift
1965-1967
Little beggar girl
[Peru]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Dick Swift
LL/25149
22.Edward Grazda
1997
Woman Begging, Kabul
[Afghanistan 1992-2004]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Edward Grazda
© Edward Grazda 2007
 
LL/16598
   
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