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FERREZ, MARC (1843-1923) Album entitled "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil," with 13 rich and remarkably detailed photographs. Includes panoramic views of the harbor and city (in which various public buildings are identified), landscapes (one with a photographer, perhaps Ferrez, in the foreground), street scenes, and monuments. Arch-topped printing-out paper prints, 8x18 (20.3x45.7 cm.) to 14 3/4x9 3/4 inches (37.5x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, each print with a title in the lower portion of the plate and adhered to a decorative and printed mount, with Ferrez's credit, address, and the location Brazil on mount recto; with interleafing tissues (worn). Elephant folio, gilt-pictorial debossed morocco, backstrip perished, edgewear; with the bookplate of Robert Webster Day on the front pastedown. 1880s
The sequence of plates includes: "Statue Dom Pedro" "Rio Janeiro (De L'Ile Das Cobras") "Bairro de Rio Janeiro" "Jardin Public Vue Generale" "Praia d'Irarahy" "Palais Imperiale S. Christovo" "La Gavea" "Cascade de Paquequer" "Theosophus, Le Doigt de Dieu, de la Route" "Tijura Bua Vista" "Botofago" Clipper ship "Petropolis Nontee de la Serra."
Marc Ferrez traveled throughout Brazil and is considered one of its best artistic photographers. He opened his studio at 88 Rua Sao Jose in 1878 and continued to operate at this location until 1903.
In addition to his refined aesthetic sensibility, Ferrez was intent on studying the optics of light to achieve the effect he desired. Interestingly, in Rio the problem of shooting a picture was complicated by the haze, the result of a high proportion of humidity in the air throughout most of the year. The photographs in this album are crisp and clear, and rendered in vivid detail.
