http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8st7vm0 Online items available Finding aid for the Gilberto Ferrez collection of photographs of nineteenth-century Brazil, 1856-1940 Beth Ann Guynn Finding aid for the Gilberto 92.R.14 1 Ferrez collection of photographs of nineteenth-century Brazil... Descriptive Summary Title: Gilberto Ferrez collection of photographs of nineteenth-century Brazil Date (inclusive): 1856-1940 Number: 92.R.14 Creator/Collector: Ferrez, Gilberto Physical Description: 44.15 Linear Feet(35 boxes) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688
[email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: The collection comprises almost 1,000 photographic prints from the oeuvre of the Brazilian photographer Marc Ferrez, whose work encompassed a photographic vision of imperial and early modern Brazil, as well as approximately 775 photographic prints by photographers active in Brazil from 1860 to 1940. The photographers represented include J. S. Affonso; Carlos Bippus; Fritz Büsch; Companhia Photographica Brazileira; Guilherme Gaensly; Gaensly & Lindemann; João Goston; Pedros Hees; Alberto Henschel; Revert Henrique Klumb; George Leuzinger; Guilhermo Liebenau; Augusto Malta; Augusto Militaõ de Azevedo; Mortimer; Augusto Riedel; and Stahl & Wahnschaffe. Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is in Portuguese, French, and English Biographical /Historical Note The Brazilian businessman, historian, curator, photographer, and collector, Gilberto Ferrez, was born into a family immersed in the visual arts. His great-grandfather and great-uncle, the sculptors Zépherin and Marc Ferrez, arrived in Brazil with the Mission artistique français (Missão Artística Francesa) in 1816.