Félix Bonfils

♂ *1831-1885 / France

Works

Solo exhibitions

Historical Travel Photography 1850–1890 / Historische Reisephotographie 1850-1890

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
22 Apr 2011 – 21 Aug 2011
100 Photographs: Egypt, Palestine, Jerusalem, Lebanon and Syria, 1867-1870

Charles Nes Photography LLC, New York (US)
8 May 2003 – 21 Jun 2003

Group

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photographies des 19°, 20€ et 21e siècles

Box Galerie, Brussels (BE)
12 Sep 2026 – 31 Oct 2026

with Michael Ackerman, Nathalie Amand, Israel Arino, Karl Blossfeldt, Adolphe Braun, Etienne Carjat, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Toni Catany, Franck Christen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Marina Cox, Bernard Descamps …
El sueño de la razón. Del Siglo de las Luces a la inteligencia artificial

Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (ES)
10 Oct 2025 – 5 Apr 2026

with Anna Ridler, Valentin Vallhonrat
Image and Space / Bild und Raum

Candida Höfer in Dialogue with the Photography Collection of the Kunstbibliothek / im Dialog mit der Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
25 Mar 2022 – 28 Aug 2022

with Dirk Alvermann, Ottomar Anschütz, Eugene Atget, Robert Gambier Bolton, Samuel Bourne, , Eugene Coubiller, Frank Cousins, Cesare Di Liborio, Theodor Diepenbach, Eugène Druet, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag …
Exquisite Reality:

Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851–1900

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
29 Mar 2021 – 29 Mar 2022

with Francis Frith, Giorgio Sommer
Oriental Grand Tour

Fotografien aus der Sammlung Ruth und Peter Herzog

Antikenmuseum Basel, Basel (CH)
13 Sep 2020 – 13 Dec 2020

with Maxime du Camp, Francis Frith, Luigi Pesce, Pascal Sebah, Louis Vignes
Natur als Kunst

Landschaft im 19. Jahrhundert in Malerei und Fotografie. Aus den Sammlungen der Christoph Heilmann Stiftung und des Münchner Stadtmuseums

Lenbachhaus, München (DE)
19 Mar 2019 – 18 Aug 2019

with Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Giacomo Caneva, Georg Maria Eckert, Constant Alexandre Famin, August Kotzsch, Gustave Le Gray, Giorgio Sommer, Gustav Voelkerling
Photographs from the Tom Birch Collection

Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington (US)
26 Jan 2019 – 2 Mar 2019

with Ansel Adams, Merry Alpern, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Zeke Berman, Karl Blossfeldt, Jewgeni Chaldej, William E. Dassonville, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andre Gelpke, Jan Groover, Graciela Iturbide …
Natur als Kunst

Landschaft im 19. Jahrhundert in Malerei und Fotografie aus den Sammlungen der Christoph Heilmann Stiftung am Lenbachhaus München und des Münchner Stadtmuseums

Angermuseum Erfurt, Erfurt (DE)
5 Aug 2018 – 28 Oct 2018

with Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Giacomo Caneva, Georg Maria Eckert, Constant Alexandre Famin, August Kotzsch, Gustave Le Gray, Giorgio Sommer, Gustav Voelkerling
Let it be 1850-2017

Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris (FR)
28 Feb 2018 – 23 Mar 2018

with Henri Bechard, Edouard Baldus, Frédéric Boissonnas, Samuel Bourne, Pierre Jahan, Louis Jammes, Dora Maar, Richard Misrach, Jacqueline Salmon, Jose Maria Sert
MARE NOSTRUM

Traveller photography around the Mediterranean Sea / Reisephotographie rund ums Mittelmeer 1850 - 2017

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
23 Sep 2017 – 20 Nov 2017

with Barbara Armbruster, Hippolyte Arnoux, Antonio Beato, Silvie Defraoui, Emile Fréchon, Concha Jerez, Leekian & Cie, Les freres Zangaki, Guido Mangold, Antoni Muntadas, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Patrick Raynaud …
A History of Photography

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
12 May 2017 – 8 Oct 2017

with Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus
Natur als Kunst

Landschaft im 19. Jahrhundert in Malerei und Fotografie. Aus den Sammlungen der Christoph Heilmann Stiftung und des Münchner Stadtmuseums

Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau (DE)
14 Feb 2016 – 5 Jun 2016

with Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Giacomo Caneva, Georg Maria Eckert, Constant Alexandre Famin, August Kotzsch, Gustave Le Gray, Giorgio Sommer, Gustav Voelkerling
THE DAY WILL COME

When we share more than ever

Museum Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg (DE)
19 Jun 2015 – 20 Sep 2015

with Laia Abril, Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bedford, Natalie Bookchin, Adolphe Braun, Natascha A. Brunswick, Heman Chong, Harold E. Edgerton, Tsuneo Enari, Andreas Feininger, Aurelien Froment, Lotte Genzsch …
New Visions: Art & Invention in the 19th Century

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
11 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015

with James Anderson, Edouard Baldus, Samuel Bourne, William Henry Fox Talbot, Francis Frith, William Henry Jackson, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Carleton E. Watkins
Greek Seas: A Photographic Journey in Time

Benaki Museum - Pireos St Annexe, Athens (GR)
10 Oct 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Alois Beer, Franz Fiedler, Herbert List, Robert McCabe, Pascal Sebah, Rene Zuber
L'Arbre et le photographe

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
3 Feb 2012 – 22 Apr 2012

with Claire Adelfang, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Eugene Atget, Mustapha Azeroual, Fanny Beguery, Paul Marcellin Berthier, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Nicolas Bruant, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Michel Cabaud, Giacomo Caneva, Beatrice Caracciolo …
In Search of Biblical Lands: Fron Jerusalem to Jordan in 19th Century Photography

The Getty Villa Malibu, Pacific Palisades (US)
2 Mar 2011 – 12 Sep 2011

with Felice Beato, Frank Mason Good, James P. Graham, Auguste Salzmann
Another Time, Another Place: Aspects of 19th Century Photography.

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2010 – 20 Aug 2010

with Felice Beato, William Henry Fox Talbot, Achille Léon Quinet
MIROIRS D'ORIENTS

Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille (FR)
15 May 2009 – 31 Aug 2009

with Abdullah Freres, Antonio Beato, Maxime du Camp, Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, James Robertson, Pascal Sebah, Anton Solomoukha
Pyramiden und Sphinx

Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung S, Berlin (DE)
12 Nov 2008 – 9 Jan 2009

with Felice Beato, Antonio Beato, Frank Mason Good, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt
in qualche parte del mondo

Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia 2008

Biennale Int. di Fotografia, Brescia (IT)
12 Jun 2008 – 14 Sep 2008

with Henri Bechard, Gabriele Basilico, Antonio Beato, Felice Beato, Samuel Bourne, Martin Chambi, David Chancellor, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Edward S. Curtis, Jeff Dunas, Franco Fontana, Francis Frith …
L'aventure Orientale entre art, documents et commerce

Les grands ateliers photographiques

L'Imagerie, Lannion (FR)
13 Oct 2007 – 24 Nov 2007

with Abdullah Freres, Hippolyte Arnoux, Henri Bechard, Guillaume Berggren, Pascal Sebah
Ins Heilige Land

Pilgerstätten und Landschaften im Orient - Photographien aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (DE)
23 Jul 2006 – 5 Nov 2006

with Guillaume Berggren, Tancrède Dumas, Jakob August Lorent
Le négatif en photographie, oeuvre en soi ou promesse d'oeuvre ?

Exemples historiques à partir de François-Auguste Ravier, 1849

Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris (FR)
5 Apr 2006 – 20 May 2006

with Edouard Baldus, Firmin-Eugène Le Dien, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre
Zu den Ufern des Nils - Historische Photographien der Reiss-Sammlung aus Ägypten

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (DE)
29 May 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Abdullah Freres, Hippolyte Arnoux, Felice Beato, Pascal Sebah
Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
2 Jun 2005 – 6 Sep 2005

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Gioacchino Altobelli, James Anderson, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Lewis Baltz, Hippolyte Bayard, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White …
Dall’immaginario all’immagine

FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma

Società geografica italiana, Roma (IT)
20 Apr 2005 – 20 May 2005

with Francis Frith, Frank Mason Good
La Photographie à l'épreuve

MAMC Saint-Étienne , Saint-Étienne (FR)
11 Feb 2005 – 10 Apr 2005

with Robert Adams, Laure Albin-Guillot, Claude Batho, Cecil Beaton, Bill Beckley, Pierre Boucher, Victor Burgin, Larry Clark, John Coplans, Gabriel Cuallado, Walker Evans, Guenther Foerg …
Iconos: La mejor fotografía y cine de la George Eastman House

Fundación Barrié, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
5 Oct 2004 – 9 Jan 2005

with Eddie Adams, Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew B. Brady, Adolphe Braun, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan …

Events

Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
25 Nov 2024 – 3 Dec 2024

with Ottomar Anschütz, Ragnar Axelsson, Edouard Baldus, Hans Bellmer, Sibylle Bergemann, Bisson Freres, Karl Blossfeldt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Christian Borchert, John Bulmer, Jewgeni Chaldej, Bruce Davidson …
Photographies

à l'occasion de Paris - Photo

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2023 – 9 Nov 2023

with Hans Bellmer, Bisson Freres, Bill Brandt, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alphonse de Brébisson, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Elliott Erwitt, Gisele Freund …
Photographs

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
11 Nov 2021 – 13 Nov 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Edouard Baldus, Lewis Baltz, Auguste Belloc, Hugo A. Bernatzik, Bruno Bisang, Bisson Freres, Christian Boltanski, Edouard Boubat, Brassai …
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
7 Jun 2021 – 15 Jun 2021

with Carl Albiker, Henri Bechard, Dimitry Baltermants, Max Baur, Felice Beato, Boris Becker, Francis Bedford, Sibylle Bergemann, Karl Blossfeldt, Brassai, Rene Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson …
Photographies

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
1 Jul 2020 – 3 Jul 2020

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Peter Beard, Arthur Benda, Paul Marcellin Berthier, Bisson Freres, Edouard Boubat, Brassai, Adolphe Braun, Claude Cahun …
photo la 2020

photo l.a., Santa Monica (US)
30 Jan 2020 – 2 Feb 2020

with Ansel Adams, Sia Aryai, Iwan Baan, Morley Baer, Cecil Beaton, Tom Blachford, Julie Blackmon, Dinesh Boaz, Kate Breakey, Wynn Bullock, Christopher Burkett, Harry Callahan …
PHOTOGRAPHIES DES XIXE ET XXE

J.J. MATHIAS, Paris (FR)
29 Jan 2020 – 30 Jan 2020

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Paul Almasy, Eugene Atget, Henri Bechard, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Denise Bellon, Pierre Boucher, Adolphe Braun, Rene Burri, Etienne Carjat, Désiré Charnay …
Photography

Lempertz, Köln (DE)
23 Nov 2019 – 28 Nov 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edouard Baldus, Erwin Blumenfeld, Lev Borodulin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erich Consemueller, Alfred Ehrhardt, Fernand Fonssagrives, Robert Frank, Gisele Freund, Vincenzo Galdi …
PHOTOGRAPHIES

Collections & Propositions

MILLON Drouot, Paris (FR)
4 Nov 2017 – 7 Nov 2017

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Beard, Paul Marcellin Berthier, Bruno Bisang, Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Theodore Brauner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jewgeni Chaldej, John Craven, Robert Doisneau, Camille Dolard …
Photographs

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
6 Jun 2017 – 8 Jun 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adamson, Laure Albin-Guillot, Felice Beato, Cecil Beaton, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Bisson Freres, Edouard Boubat, Brassai, Adolphe Braun, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa …
Fine Photographs and Photobooks

Bloomsbury Auctions, London (GB)
14 May 2017 – 17 May 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, James Anderson, David Bailey, Felice Beato, Cecil Beaton, Guillaume Berggren, Bruce Bernard, Ruth Bernhard, Erwin Blumenfeld, Rene Burri …
Photographie

KOLLER AUKTIONEN AG, Zürich (CH)
25 Nov 2016 – 29 Nov 2016

with Richard Avedon, Werner Bischof, Adolphe Braun, Rene Burri, Lucien Clergue, Robert Doisneau, Maxime du Camp, Roger Fenton, Nan Goldin, Rene Groebli, Richard Hamilton, Thomas Hoepker …
Photographies

Collection Brigitte et Roland Broca

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)

with Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Bisson Freres, Samuel Bourne, Tommaso Cuccioni, Maxime du Camp, Roger Fenton, Fratelli Alinari, Jean (Juan) Laurent, Gustave Le Gray, Lehnert & Landrock , Charles Marville …
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Antonio Beato, Francis Bedford, Charles Clifford, Louis De Clercq, Tancrède Dumas, Marcelin Flandrin, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Gustave Le Gray, Lehnert & Landrock , Paul Nadar
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Guillaume Berggren, Adolphe Braun, Maxime du Camp, Tancrède Dumas, Marcelin Flandrin, Frank Mason Good, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Lehnert & Landrock , Paul Nadar, James Robertson, Auguste Salzmann, James Valentine
Photographies

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)

with Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Bisson Freres, Edouard Boubat, Pierre Boucher, Samuel Bourne, Marcel Bovis, Adolphe Braun, Frantisek Drtikol, Pierre Dubreuil, Èmeric Feher, George Hoyningen-Huene …
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Adolphe Braun, Louis De Clercq, Luigi Fiorillo, Felix Teynard
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Abdullah Freres, Guillaume Berggren, Giacomo Brogi, Maxime du Camp, Tancrède Dumas, Marcelin Flandrin, Francis Frith, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Lehnert & Landrock , Alexandre Leroux, Albert Poche …
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Guillaume Berggren, Muhammad Sadik Bey, Antonio Cavilla, Alphonse Delaunay, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Maxime du Camp, Tancrède Dumas, Constant Alexandre Famin, Marcelin Flandrin, Francis Frith, John Beasley Greene, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt …