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Partie de Mille et une Colonnes. Souterrain de Stamboul. 299
Partie de Mille et une Colonnes. Souterrain de Stamboul. 299
Partie de Mille et une Colonnes. Souterrain de Stamboul. 299
Photo repro: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Partie de Mille et une Colonnes. Souterrain de Stamboul. 299

by Guillaume Berggren
Artist (Sverige, 1835 - 1920)
Alternate Title
  • De tusen och en pelarnas cistern
Dateca 1880
DimensionsBildmått: 21 × 26,4 cm Pappersmått: 23,2 × 28 cm Passepartout: 40 × 50 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1965
Object NumberFM 1965 001 109
CollectionsHelmer Bäckströms fotografisamling
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork The Swedish photographer Guillaume Berggren established his studio in the 1870s in Constantinople, now Istanbul. He is best known for his panoramas of the famous landmarks of the Bosphorus but also for pictures from the city’s bazaars and crowded back streets. The many tourists who visited the Ottoman Empire were among his customers, and he also printed and sold postcards from his vast photography collection. Berggren won huge success and was the appointed photographer for the opening of the Orient Express in 1883 and the royal visit of Sweden’s King Oscar II and Queen Sofia to Constantinople in 1885. His body of work also includes a series of portraits of local tradesmen, veiled women and dancing dervishes. Description Partie de Mille et une Colonnes, Konstantinopel Selected exhibition history Fotografiska vyer från Bosporen och Konstantinopel. G. Berggren - paysagist (1984) Fotografiska Museet i Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Fotografiska vyer från Bosporen och Konstantinopel : om den svenske fotografen G. Berggren och hans verksamhet under 1800-talet i det ottomanska Turkiet : Fotografiska Museet : [3 november - 16 december 1984]