Photographer: Thérese Le Prat born Cahen (19 March 1895, Pantin, France—6 March 1966, Neuilly sur Seine) - Internationally renowned and collected photographer.

Subject: Chinese boy with tulip
Type Of Print: Authentic Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Héliogravure
Date Of Print: 1938
Printmaker/Engraver: La Néogravure, Paris, France
Paper: Medium weight, matte finish
Print Origin: France
Approximate image size : 40 x 30 cm's
Passe Partout Size: 50 x 40 cm's
Mount Board Color: White
Print Border: No - full bleed print.
Condition Grade: Fine ++

Thérese Le Prat born Cahen (19 March 1895, Pantin, France—6 March 1966, Neuilly sur Seine) was a renowned photographer who worked on Cambodia, Tonkin and Annam (Vietnam) during several decades.

When she divorced French publisher Guillaume Le Prat in the early 30s, he offered her a Rollex camera and, thanks to her dawning talent and she was employed by the Compagnie des Messageries maritimes as a reporter, mainly in Asia, Oceania and Africa. In Hanoi and Cambodia, she met and befriended Gilberte de Coral-Rémusat, for whom she illustrated several publications.

After World War II, she married Philippe Stern, eminent specialist in Far East civilizations and close friend of Gilberte’s, and specialized in portrait photography, portraying major artists, dancers, writers, actors and actresses. She was also an acclaimed theater stage photographer.

In 1992, her archives containing some 18 000 negatives, 5 000 original prints, 15 000 contacts, and personal notes, was donated to Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris. In 2015, a collection of 140 silver prints capturing mostly Khmer temples (Bayon, Phum Prasat, Angkor Thom…) and daily life in Tonkin and Annam, was auctioned and bought at Galerie Drouot, Paris.




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