.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
The images in this album predates Freud and the Surrealists' preoccupation with aggression and eroticism by almost half a century.
The album was created by an anonymous French amateur photographer, and consisted of about 100 pages containing 200 photocollages, salt prints and hand-colored photographs. Its date of 1870 is tied to a newspaper clipping from that year which appears in another of the collages.
The remainder of this extraordinary album is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
The album was created by an anonymous French amateur photographer, and consisted of about 100 pages containing 200 photocollages, salt prints and hand-colored photographs. Its date of 1870 is tied to a newspaper clipping from that year which appears in another of the collages.
The remainder of this extraordinary album is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.