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Leroux Alexandre

Album photographique - Alger 1898, photographies prises durant l'émeute antisémite

1898

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Feu Follet Librairie (Paris, France)

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Year of publication
1898
Place of printing
Alger
Author
Leroux Alexandre
Size
26x19,5cm
Keyword
Oeuvres d'art|Photographies
Binding description
relié
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

- Alger 1898, 26x19,5cm, relié. - Photograph album - Algiers 1898, photographs taken during the Anti-Semitic Riots. [Photographer's personal album with handwritten captions] Algiers 1898 | 26 x 19.5 cm | half shagreen Unique album containing 47 original photographs printed at the time on albumen paper, in various sizes (15 x 11 cm, 15.5 x 11 cm, 11 x 7.5 cm). The majority of the photographs have the information "Phot. Leroux Alger" on the plate. Each shot, with the exception of the last thirteen, is captioned in French in pencil on the lower right corner of the album. These captions, very precise since they are dated and even show the time of each event, make us think that it could be the photographer's personal copy. Contemporary binding in half burgundy shagreen, spine evenly sunned except a small area, double gilt fillets on the old pink boards lightly discoloured and foxed, gilt title and date on the first board, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing on the corners and grooves. Rare photographic report showing the anti-Semitic riots that took place in Algiers between 20 and 25 January 1898, following the Dreyfus Affair, the appointment of the former Prefect Lépine as Governor and the Crémieux Decree. "From 20 to 25 January, the mob rules the city's streets, roads and squares. The momentum of the police allows the Anti-Semites, sometimes helped by the Muslims, to undertake a war on the Jewish (the "youpinades"), plundering shops, vandalising homes, lighting fires and caning or stoning any passer-by thought to be Jewish. While the tension is at its height, there are many confrontations between the Jewish and anti-Jewish, resulting in injuries and one death, a Spaniard, Félix Cayrol who was stabbed by a Jew." (Catherine Bruant, La Valise en carton ou Les Deux Exils du père, 2016) The album that we have to offer shows precisely the plundering of the Jewish business, Cayrol's funeral procession and the military control of the demonstrations (cavalry, infantrymen, etc.). Several photographs in this album were used to illustrate the article dedicated to the riots published in Le Monde illustré n°2132 on 5 February 1898. The photographer, Alexandre Leroux, sent them to the newspaper who had them reproduced by the artist Louis Tinayre. It is a completely surprising album, Leroux mostly being known for his panoramas and portraits of natives; from here on he becomes a real journalist-reporter, using his photographic skills as part of his journalism. We have only found one other copy of this type of album in the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism (ahJ, Paris) which contains slightly different photographs. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Très rare album contenant 47 photographies en tirage d'époque sur papier albuminé, de formats divers (15 x 11 cm, 15,5 x 11 cm et 11x7,5cm). La plupart des photographies présentent l'indication «?Phot. Leroux Alger?» dans la plaque. Chaque cliché, à l'exception des treize derniers, est légendé en français au crayon de papier dans le coin inférieur droit de l'album. Ces légendes, très précises car datées et précisant même l'heure de chaque évènement, permettent de supposer qu'il s'agit de l'exemplaire personnel du photographe. Reliure de l'époque en demi chagrin bordeaux à coins, dos lisse uniformément insolé hormis une petite zone où se trouvait une étiquette, doubles filets dorés sur les plats de cartonnage vieux rose légèrement décolorés et piqués, titre et date dorés sur le premier plat, gardes et contreplats de papier peigné. Quelques frottements au niveau des coins et des mors. Rare reportage photographique témoignant des émeutes antisémites, ayant eu lieu à Alger du 20 au 25 janvier 1898, à la suite notamment de l'Affaire Dreyfus, de la nomination de l'ancien préfet Lépine en tant que gouverneur et du décret Crémieux. «?Du 20 au 25 janvier, la foule est maîtresse des rues, artères et places de la ville. L'inertie de la police permet aux antisémites, parfois aidés des musulmans, de procéder à une vé