Photomontage including portraits, architectural views of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Hong Kong (now Hong Kong, China), and a composite view of Angkor Wat, Siam (now in Cambodia)

People:

Emile Gsell (photographer)

Title:

Photomontage including portraits, architectural views of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Hong Kong (now Hong Kong, China), and a composite view of Angkor Wat, Siam (now in Cambodia)

Date:

between 1866 and 1879

Description:

- This photomontage includes several images that are identical to other photographs in album PH1982:0643:001-189.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.0 x 23.0 cm secondary support: 28.3 x 36.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0643:100

Point of View:

exterior views
interior views

Inscription:

inscribed - on the original, c.: "Gsell / Photographe / SAIGON." [inscribed on a business card that is a component of a photomontage] inscribed - on the original, c.l. and c.r.: this photomontage includes images of cards inscribed with text in Chinese characters and text in Thai characters

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture
portrait

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
people
temples
buildings
ship
portraits
inscriptions
photomontage
business card

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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