Ventes live - Lot 668
[Syria - Palestine]
2 photos.
€ 80 / 100
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Description du lot
Silver print, 7,3 x 24,8 cm, b/w, under passe-partout, with printed legend pasted on mount, photographer's stamp on verso and justification "19" (Damascus) and "460" (Hebron); mention on verso of passe-partout in ms.
1. Damascus Gate. 1935. - 2. Hebron, Abraham's Tomb. 1955.
Elia Kahvedjian (1910-1999) was one of the greatest photographers in Jerusalem of the early 20th c. Born in Urfa, Southeast Turkey in 1910, he survived at the age of 5 the Armenian genocide which embarks a lifestory strudded with challenging historic events and a fierce will to never give up.