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Viewing Tahiti. Early photographs 1859–1870
Culture · Friday, October 16 · 10:30 · Paris
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 37, quai Jacques Chirac
Free
Two views, a decade apart: the very first snapshots of French Polynesia resurfaced, signed by a little-known naval surgeon and a photographer already recognized. A unique photographic rediscovery at the museum. In 2023, the museum acquired an exceptional collection 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 on a territory still little photographed at the time. The negatives on paper of…
