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aller au contenu principal cabinet expertise & investigation menu blog pwt subscribe memento de auctione videos and teasers galerie du palace publié le 2 août 2018 2 août 2018 pwt 29-2018 copernican armillary sphere : conjonction of portraits the copernican revolution was the paradigm shift from the ptolemaic model of the heavens, formulated by nicolaus copernic some time before 1514 and refined until the publishing of de revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. this copernican armillary sphere (france, circa 1840) will be presented at zonamaco anticuario, 22 august 2016, stand b-216. fifteen scores later, the daguerreian revolution was the paradigm shift from the classical representation of nature and human faces, formulated by niépce some time before 1827 and refined by several gentlemen until the public announcement of 19 august 1839. this daguerrian portrait (circle of robert cornelius, philadelphia, circa 1840) will be presented at zonamaco foto y anticuario, 22 august 2016, stand b-216. when the first photographic processes were invented and developped by niépce and his followers in europe, the photographic portrait was really born in america circa 1840. robert cornelius in philadelphia and john draper are the central figures. this quarter plate daguerreotype (circle of johhn draper, new york, circa 1840) will be presented at zonamaco foto, 22 august 2016, stand b-216. la galerie du palace invited french artist lyes hammadouche. please come and visit his installation. the conjonction of rare daguerrian portraits from europe and the americas meet with the conjonstion of planets of a vintage armil. this “planétaire copernicien” (copernican armillary sphere, france, circa 1840) will be presented at zonamaco anticuario, 22 august 2016, stand b-216. the portrait session was a real adventure and often a unique event in each period of life (with the notable exception of the artists’ families). some models have dramatically thwarted the operator’s efforts to capture the decisive moment. this early daguerreian portrait of three children (philadelphia, circa 1843) will be presented at zonamaco foto, 22 august 2016, stand b-216. this invention of daguerrian portraiture accompanied the formation of the united states and the birth of american culture. the portrait below is contemporary of the youth of mark twain, author of tom sawyer’s adventures. this sixth plate daguerreotype (w. v. prentice, savannah, georgia, circa 1855) will be presented at zonamaco foto, 22 august 2016, stand b-216. access to a selection (pdf) pwt 29-2018 zonamaco salón y zonamaco foto regresan del 22 al 26 de agosto a la sala d del centro citibanamex de la ciudad de méxico, con la más amplia selección de fotografía, antigüedades y otros objetos, de la mano de un sólido programa cultural en la plataforma de ferias de arte en méxico con mayor proyección internacional. tweet publié le 26 juillet 2018 17 juillet 2018 26.07.2018 pwt 28-2018 les sept péchés capitaux (seven deadly sins) avant thomas d’aquin, evagre le pontique énumère les idées concupiscibles et irascibles qui donneront les intitulés des sept péchés capitaux : gourmandise, criminels identifiés par des morsures gourmandes avarice, les accumulations de landru luxure, 20 000 femmes tondues lors de l’épuration à la libération paresse, jarretelles tatouées sur des mollets poilus colère, affaire secula, couteau de vannier envie, une bande de dévaliseurs de boutiques orgueil, paul ferdonnet, autoportrait ithyphallique (paul ferdonnet, rédacteur des bulletins de radio humanité, 1939) pwt 28-2018 seven deadly sins tweet publié le 19 juillet 2018 17 juillet 2018 19.07.2018 p. weekly transmission 27-2018 presents: giacomo caneva, the roman school of photography and the early history of photography in china giacomo caneva was born at padua on the 4th of july 1813 of giuseppe caneva and anna pavan. there were four other children, antonio, giovanni, camillo and teresa, who died as a child. the father was well-to-do, and was the owner of the “albergo al principe carlo” in prato della valle. caneva left padua on the 12th of november 1834 to register at the regia accademia di belle arti at venice (royal academy of fine arts) where, in particular, he followed the school of the perspective of tranquillo orsi. here he qualified as a “perspective painter” and widened his knowledge of the camera obscura, which he used in his paintings. in 1840, caneva moved to rome with giuseppe jappelli (1783-1851), called by prince alessandro torlonia for the arrangement of greenery in the southern area of villa torlonia in rome… … his innate inclination for novelty awakened an interest in photography immediately after its invention. he began his photographic career as a daguerreotypist, according to notes left by his friend tommaso cuccioni, who later became a photographer himself. however, as things stand at present, his daguerreotypes cannot be individualized. he is recorded in the famous list of artists’ addresses which was begun at the caffé greco in 1845: “g. caneva. painter and photographer, via sistina 100,” and then, “via del corso 446. near s. carlo.” … … many calotypes of giacomo caneva were printed after his death by his friend ludovico tuminello who returned to rome in 1869 after a long exile. tuminello wrote captions on caneva’s paper negatives and sold albumen prints with his own captions and name and this, before it was understood, created considerable confusion in the recent years… … in 2012, some dozens of original photos of caneva, taken during his 1859 trip to china, have appeared on the market of antiques photos, which were believed to be completely lost… pwt 27-2018 giacomo caneva tweet publié le 11 juillet 2018 11 juillet 2018 12.07.2018 pwt 26-2018 history of political party funding : the 1907 tiflis bank robbery the 1907 tiflis bank robbery, also known as the yerevan square expropriation was an armed robbery on 26 june 1907 in the city of tiflis in the tiflis governorate in the caucasus viceroyalty of the russian empire (now georgia’s capital, tbilisi). a bank cash shipment was stolen by bolsheviks to fund their revolutionary activities. the robbers attacked a bank stagecoach and surrounding police and military using bombs and guns while the stagecoach was transporting money through yerevan square (now freedom square) between the post office and the tiflis branch of the state bank of the russian empire. the attack killed forty people and injured fifty others, according to official archive documents. the robbers escaped with 341,000 rubles (equivalent to around us 3.86 million in 2017). the robbery was organized by a number of top-level bolsheviks, including vladimir lenin, joseph stalin, maxim litvinov, leonid krasin, and alexander bogdanov, and executed by a party of revolutionaries led by stalin’s early associate ter-petrosian (kamo). the rsdlp, the predecessor to the communist party of the soviet union, was formed in 1898. the goal of the rsdlp was to carry out a marxist proletarian revolution against the russian empire. as part of their revolutionary activity, the rsdlp and other revolutionary groups (such as anarchists and socialist revolutionaries) practised a range of militant operations, including “expropriations”, a euphemism for armed robberies of government or private funds to support revolutionary activities. pwt 26-2018 tiflis under the rain tweet publié le 28 juin 2018 27 juin 2018 28.06.18 pwt 25-2018 chinese history of photography : mysterious marshall milton miller mysterious marshall milton miller “miller is becoming increasingly recognised as one of the key figures in early chinese photography, even though almost nothing is known about him or his career. although little of his landscape work has yet been identified. the genre portraits he took are celebrated for their often jarring intensity and also for the apparent empathy he felt for his chinese sitters …” (encyclopedia of 19th century photography) “thank