Thursday, September 8, 2016

Young Anarchists of 1894

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Charles Galau
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Auguste Bordes
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art


"Altogether the old man was a prey to suppositions which led him to feel how much he himself had outlived the democratic glow of his prime. He had ended by accepting everything ... and even by taking an interest in current politics, as to which, of old, he had held the opinion (the same that the Poupins held to-day) that they had been invented on purpose to throw dust in the eyes of disinterested reformers and to circumvent the social solution. He had given up that problem some time ago; there was no way to clear it up that didn't seem to make a bigger mess than the actual muddle of human affairs, which, by the time one had reached sixty-five, had mostly ceased to exasperate. Mr. Vetch could still feel a certain sharpness on the subject of the prayer-book and the bishops; and if at moments he was a little ashamed of having accepted this world he could reflect that at all events he continued to repudiate every other. The idea of great changes, however, took its place among the dreams of his youth; for what was any possible change in the relations of men and women but a new combination of the same elements? If the elements could be made different the thing would be worth thinking of; but it was not only impossible to introduce any new ones  no means had yet been discovered for getting rid of the old. The figures on the chessboard were still the passions and jealousies and superstitions and stupidities of man, and their position with regard to each other, at any given moment, could be of interest only to the grim, invisible fates who played the game  who sat, through the ages, low-backed over the table."

 from The Princess Casamassima (1885) by Henry James

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Antoine Benoit
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Alexandre Émile Bocquet
1894
albumen
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Aimé Firmin-Anceau
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Sébastien Bissonier
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Raoul Borderie
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Maurice Bassille
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Hercule Bedei
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Gabriel Billon
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Eugène Bellemans
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Eugène Billot
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Émile Maince
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alphonse Bertillon
Anarchist Félix Brunet
1894
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art