ARCHIVE OF EPHEMERAL MATERIAL RELATED TO 19TH PHOTOGRAPHY / DAGUERREOTYPES IN ARGENTINA. COMPILATION OF 19 PRINTED PHAMPHLETS, SERIALS, ARTICLES) ; Contents: 1. La Argentina Pintoresca. Buenos Aires, Editores G. Bourquin & Cia. [c1921], (120)p. duo tone plates, wrps. 18cm Young Swiss photographer Gaston Aquiles Bourquin (b. Berne, Switzerland 1890 -- d. Arge ntina 1950) arrived in Argentina in 1913 as an assistant in the already established photo studio of Juan Pi in Mendoza. Bourquin was one of the first photographers who professionally edited his photographs as tourism material produced as postcards, cards, albums and calendars. The present album comprises 120 photographs accompanied by brief texts by Manuel Gálvez, Carlos Octavio Bunge, Leopoldo Lugones, Victor Juan Guillot, Joaquin V. Gonzalez, amongst others. Bourquin's photographs are characteristic for their exceptional clearness as his plates were done in glass negatives that allowed for an almost perfect image when printed 2. San Martín, Fernando L
- Argentina: Museo Históorico Fotográfico de Quilmes.., 2003
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ARCHIVE OF EPHEMERAL MATERIAL RELATED TO 19TH PHOTOGRAPHY / DAGUERREOTYPES IN ARGENTINA. COMPILATION OF 19 PRINTED PHAMPHLETS, SERIALS, ARTICLES) ; Contents: 1. La Argentina Pintoresca. Buenos Aires, Editores G. Bourquin & Cia. [c1921], (120)p. duo tone plates, wrps. 18cm Young Swiss photographer Gaston Aquiles Bourquin (b. Berne, Switzerland 1890 -- d. Arge ntina 1950) arrived in Argentina in 1913 as an assistant in the already established photo studio of Juan Pi in Mendoza. Bourquin was one of the first photographers who professionally edited his photographs as tourism material produced as postcards, cards, albums and calendars. The present album comprises 120 photographs accompanied by brief texts by Manuel Gálvez, Carlos Octavio Bunge, Leopoldo Lugones, Victor Juan Guillot, Joaquin V. Gonzalez, amongst others. Bourquin's photographs are characteristic for their exceptional clearness as his plates were done in glass negatives that allowed for an almost perfect image when printed 2. San Martín, Fernando L
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Museo Históorico Fotográfico de Quilmes..: Argentina
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2003