MARC FERREZ | PHOTOGRAPHER

Marc Ferrez (b. 1843, d. 1923) was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a family of artists that originally hailed from France. After being educated in Paris, he returned to Brazil, where he began to photograph the urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro in the 1860s. He established his own studio in 1865 specializing in landscape photography. Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, himself an amateur photographer and one of the wealthiest men in the 1800s, gave Ferrez money to photograph, which allowed him to flourish artistically.
Eight years after Ferrez established a studio in Rio de Janeiro, a fire destroyed it. He traveled to France, purchased a new camera, and upon his return to Brazil began to focus on rural landscapes and images of slaves working on plantations. He joined an expedition of the Brazilian Geological Commission and became a master of the panoramic photograph, using a camera capable of taking a 180-degree view. He reestablished a studio, taught photography, and operated a photographic supply house.
Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, Ferrez exhibited his photographs in the United States and Europe. In the latter decade he began to photograph architecture and street scenes and in 1907 opened the Pathé Cinema in Rio de Janeiro.

1880 - Centro do Rio de Janeiro

1885 - Negros escravos d'uma fazenda de café.

1895 - Carregadores de café do Porto de Santos, SP.

Capoeira, photo by Marc Ferrez, Salvador-Bahia

Feirantes - c. 1895

Foto de Marc Ferrez

Last slavery ship to Brazil, end of 19th century.

Marc Ferrez- Negra da Bahia

Os garrafeiros - c. 1875

Pernambuco

Vendedor ambulante de frutas e verduras - c. 1895

Vendedor de doces - c. 1875

Vendedor de pão doce - c. 1875

Foto de Marc Ferrez

Foto de Marc Ferrez

Rio de Janeiro, La Saude 1889

Cesteiro na feira - c. 1895

Vendedora de miudezas

Entrada da baía, Rio de Janeiro c. 1880
Marc Ferrez/Coleção Gilberto Ferrez/Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

Jardim da Glória, com a avenida Beira Mar à esquerda, e entrada da barra, Rio de Janeiro c. 1906

Marc Ferrez/Coleção Gilberto Ferrez/Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

Vista da estação da Luz, São Paulo, c. 1895
Marc Ferrez/ Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

Entrada da baía de Guanabara, Niterói, RJ c. 1885

Marc Ferrez/Coleção Gilberto Ferrez/Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

Praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro c. 1893
Marc Ferrez/Coleção Gilberto Ferrez/Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

Vista de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro c. 1875
Marc Ferrez/Coleção Gilberto Ferrez/Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

Cruzador Imperial Marinheiro

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