Gabriel Veyre (1871-1936) - Lot 140

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Gabriel Veyre (1871-1936) - Lot 140
Gabriel Veyre (1871-1936) Morocco, 1901. Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz in Marrakech. Period silver print. Dry stamp of the photographer below. 24 x 18 cm Gabriel Veyre was above all an operator for the Lumière brothers. After a few trips to South America and Asia, he became between 1901 and 1907 the appointed photographer and filmmaker of the young Sultan of Morocco Moulay Abdelaziz. He then made colour photographs in the form of autochromes, became a correspondent for the newspaper L'Illustration and published the book Dans l'intimité du Sultan in 1905. He then moved to Casablanca where he diversified his activities by importing the first cars from Morocco. Bibliography Tahar Ben Jelloun et alii, Le désir du Maroc, Paris, Marval, 1999, p. 182. 60 Years of Photography in Morocco, p. 194.
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