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Femmes marocaines
Fernand Bidon
1950
When this ostensibly quiet scene was photographed, Morocco was in the throes of a struggle for independence against its French occupiers. The uprising was becoming increasingly violent, with riots, massacres, and bombings, especially in the big cities.
When this ostensibly quiet scene was photographed, Morocco was in the throes of a struggle for independence against its French occupiers. The uprising was becoming increasingly violent, with riots, massacres, and bombings, especially in the big cities.
Credits
Collection Dahan-Hirsch.
Published in:The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 9.
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On the Lord’s hills, white with lustrous light,
Far from rich palaces reeking of wine,
Drunk on the night and sidereal sadness,
The King dreams in self-imposed exile.
Below, mid the wheat, the…
Fernand Bidon was a French photographer who worked under the pseudonym Félix. Born in Marseille, Bidon lived and worked in Marrakech between 1912 and 1963; he was one of the first resident photographers of Morocco. During France’s occupation of Morocco, a number of French artists visited the country to document, through European eyes, the culture of the region. Bidon captured hundreds of images of street life in Marrakech, including photographs of the city’s Jewish quarter and its residents. Bidon used his photographs to produce postcards, likely capitalizing on the popularity of the exoticized Middle Eastern imagery found in French orientalist painting of the period. The majority of his images are in black and white, although he is known to have experimented with a small series in color. Bidon’s work remains in the collection of the Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Arts.
In this city there are, in effect, for an approximate total of 60,000 Jews, about thirty Israelite culture groups, which are developing with relative prosperity and an excellent measure of success…
The summer I was fifteen years old—just before my senior year in high school, for I had skipped grades—a new thing under the sun appeared in Brooklyn. Contact lenses. My parents made inquiries…
On the Lord’s hills, white with lustrous light,
Far from rich palaces reeking of wine,
Drunk on the night and sidereal sadness,
The King dreams in self-imposed exile.
Below, mid the wheat, the…