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Seeing Tahiti. First Photographs 1859-1870
Culture · Tuesday, October 13 · 10:30 · Paris
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 37, quai Jacques Chirac
Free
Two perspectives, a decade apart: the very first photographs of French Polynesia resurface, signed by an obscure naval surgeon and by a photographer already well known. A unique photographic rediscovery at the museum.\n\nIn 2023, the museum acquired an exceptional set of photographs, the first images taken in French Polynesia between 1859 and 1870. They are the work of two naval officers, Gustave Viaud and Paul Émile Miot, whose complementary approaches offer a rare testimony of a territory still little photographed at the time.\nThe paper negatives of…
