E D M U N D F O R T I E R ’S H O M E P A G E

CENTRE EDMOND FORTIER.

INDEX ;

GENERAL: THE POSTCARDS

Objective Lists of serials of postcards Edmond Fortier

Who's Edmond Fortier? Structure of the editions

Related sites Supplements on the catalog (2e partie)

Things worth nowing Supplements on the catalog (3e partie)

Contacts Offerlist of Fortierpostcards. Sale !!!

Exhibitions

The Archive:

At the moment the collection of the center contains digital selected Edmond Fortier-postcards and with consent from

other collectioners with pictures of the following West African states; Senegal, Guinée, Mali, Benin.

The picture collection give a nice view of the people, the landscape and the rituals between 1900 and 1910.

The period 1900 - 1904 concerns especially pictures of Senegal with accents on the City of Dakar,

the surrounding villages and ethnic groupes.

The period 1905 -1910 concerns interesting items as "A Voyage on the Niger" (Mali-1905) and visites to Guinée,

Ivory Coast and Benin. (1908)

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The purpose:

* Selecting and showing the pictures of Edmond Fortier in virtual expositions.

* Making the pictures available to all non-profit institutions, "Supporting the History of Africa".

* To be a support-center on behalf of the collectors of Edmond Fortier- postcards.

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Who's Edmond Fortier ?

Fortier was born in 1862 in the little village Celles sur Pleine in the Vosges,France. He lived already several years
in St-Louis Senegal, before he departed in 1900 to Dakar. As photographer and publisher of postcards, he
visited Senegal and Guinea, Mali in 1906, Ivory- coast, Benin and Lagos in 1908 producing,(between -1900-1910)
3.300 pictures/postcards and after 1910 publishing 3.320 reprints. He was the
first photographer who visited the Dogon (1905) in the Bandiagara ( Mali ) and visited already Tombuctu in jan.1906.
10 years of research by Philippe David, author of the "Inventaire Generale des Cartes Postales Fortier" results in the
next complete facts:
"Edmond Fortier lived in Dakar on the corner of Boulevard Pinet-Laprade / Rue Dagorne.He was a small person,
blonde, with little beard " pointu " and always wear a pointed topi (military model ) He had a favorite remark;
Le Cantal?… mon berceau, Dakar mon tombeau! (The Cantal my cradle, Dakar.. my tomb) Nothing is known after
his death on 24 February 1928, about the weal and woe of his family/heir, neither about his extensive archive of 3.300 negatives.
Pictures are published, already during his lifetime - with or without his permission - in more than 10 books.
Postcards can be found in several collections all over the world.

Source:

Wildheid en beschaving by Raymond Corbey-Ambo-Baarn-1978

.Inventaire General de cartes postales Fortier by Philippe David 1986:1987, 1988 3 tomes

Voyages Fortier au Soudan by Philippe David, Cataloque cartes postales Neudin 1983 > Home <

Visit this sites ! :

The Postcards: Supporting History of Africa:

Postcard Bill "Judnick Mali-new pictures

Collectorspage AfricaServer

Canal CPA Musée Nat. des Arts etTrad.

Postcard.org. African Studies Centre

Servinantes African Museums on Internet

Photography of Africa

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