Los 4005

Amazonia
Portraits and ethnographical studies of Peru

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer: Charles Kroehle (1867-1902) and unknown. Portraits and ethnographic studies of Indigenous people of Peru. 1890s. 25 albumen prints. Circa 14 x 10 cm. 17 signed by C. Kroehle in the negative in lower corners, 2 with photographer’s stamp annotated in pencil on the verso.

Charles Kroehle is regarded as one of the pioneering photographers of the Amazon region. He participated in several expeditions through the Amazon Basin, Ecuador, and Bolivia, producing some of the earliest photographic records of Indigenous communities in these areas. The rare portraits presented here were taken primarily in the Peruvian Amazon and depict members of various Indigenous groups, including the Pirus (Río Pichis), Canelos (Río Pastaza), Múra-Pirahã (Río Pachitea), Huasheri (Río Napo), Campa (Río Palcazu), Cunibo (Río Ucayali), Lorenzo (Río Mayra), Cachivo (Río Pachitea), Chipivas (Río Ucayali), and Cashiva (Chonta Isla, Río Pachitea). These images are among the earliest visual documents of these communities and hold significant ethnographic and historical value.
– Some with creases, a few faded, especially in edges, otherwise most in very good condition and many with strong contrasts.

Lit.: Musée du quai Branly. D’un regard l’Autre: Photographies XIXe siècle. Arles: Actes Sud, 2006, ill. p. 90.
Séverine Charon, ed. L’Amazonie disparue: Indiens et explorateurs 1825-1930. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2005, ill. pp. 94, 95, 98, 100.