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[[Image:Arabpipe.jpg|thumb|Photo of an Arab man with a pipe, taken by Félix Bonfils.]]
[[File:Beduin mothers carrying their children on their shoulders.jpg|thumb|A photograph taken by Bonfils of [[Bedouin]] women carrying their children.]]
'''Félix Bonfils''' (8 March 1831 &ndash; 1885) was a [[France|French]] [[photographer]] and [[writer]] who was active in the [[Middle East]].

He was born in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort and died in [[Alès]]. Félix worked as a bookbinder but in 1860 he joined General d'Hautpoul's expedition to the Levant. Soon after returning from Lebanon he became a photographer. When his son Adrien fell ill, Félix remembered the green hills around Beirut and sent him there to recover, being accompanied by Marie-Lydie Cabanis Bonfils, Félix's wife.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} The family moved to [[Beirut]] in 1867 where they opened a [[photographic studio]] called "Maison Bonfils".<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=Aerial Panoramic View of Beirut|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2475/|publisher=World Digital Library|accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="arc">{{cite journal | url=http://archive.archaeology.org/0105/abstracts/athens.html | title=The Genius of Félix Bonfils | author=Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew | journal=Archaeology | year=2001 | month=May/June | volume=54 | issue=3}}</ref>

Maison Bonfils produced thousands of photographs of the Middle East. They photographed posed scenes, dressed up in Middle Eastern regalia, and also stories from the [[Bible]].<ref name=WDL1/>  Their studio became "F. Bonfils et Cie" in 1878. Bonfils took photographs in [[Lebanon]], [[Egypt]], [[Palestine]], [[Syria]], [[Greece]] and [[Constantinople]] (now [[Istanbul]]).<ref name="arc"/>

In 1872 he published the album ''Architecture Antique'' (by Ducher press) after presenting some of his pictures to the [[Société française de photographie]]. 
His work became well known for the tourists that travelled to those countries because they bought their photos as souvenirs. He later opened another studio in [[Alès]] ([[France]]).

==Panoramic Photography==
After settling in the Near East, Bonfils took some [[panoramic photograph]]s of [[Constantinople]] and Damascus.<ref>http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&fq=data_source%3A%22Freer+Gallery+of+Art+and+Arthur+M.+Sackler+Gallery+Archives%22&fq=object_type%3A%22Collection+descriptions%22&q=felix+bonfils</ref>

==Further reading==
”The Image of the East: Nineteenth-Century Near-Eastern Photographs by Bonfils” by Gavin (Carney E.S.). From the Collection of the Harvard Semitic Museum, Chicago/London. University of Chicago Press, 1982.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://svrdam.cca.qc.ca/search/bs.aspx?langID=1#s=Bonfils&p=1&a=kw&nr=1&nq=1 Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. "Bonfils, Félix", cited 31 January 2011]
* [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=bonfils&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500016696 Union List of Artists Names, s.v. "Bonfils, Félix", cited 6 February 2006]
*[http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/search/results.html?ixsid=aodX5uAakiD&qs=bonfils Images by Bonfils]
*[http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/700/770/779/historical/bonfils/bonfils-history/bonfils-1.html The Bonfils Story: A Legacy Of Light]

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[[Category:1831 births]]
[[Category:1885 deaths]]
[[Category:French photographers]]
[[Category:People from Beirut]]
[[Category:Photography in Lebanon]]
[[Category:Photography in Turkey]]
[[Category:Photography in Palestine]]
[[Category:Architectural photographers]]
[[Category:World Digital Library related]]

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