Earliest photographic views of venezuela, 1857
Pal Rosti Barkoczi (also known as Paul de Rosti) was a pioneer of photography
in Venezuela. The eleven views of Caracas and the valle the Aragua he left us are
the earliest photographic views of Venezuela – and should be ranked as masterpieces
of primitive photography.
Quebrada de Catuche (all titles are the original from Rosti hand)
Pal Rosti was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1830. He studied at the university of
Munich School of Science for four years then geography and ethnography in Budapest in 1853.
In 1854 and 1855, Rosti is probably in Paris, learning photography. Although he doesn’t
appear in the extensive list of Gustave Le Gray students, he certainly learnt his waxed paper
negative process.
La Trinidad et le grand Samang
On August 4th 1856 he embarks from le Havre to New York, and travels in the United States as
far as Wisconsin. In January 1857 he arrives in Cuba.
He lands in Venezuela probably late March 1857, arriving in La Guaira (he leaves Cuba on March
12th and sails thru Saint-Thomas) and leaves Venezuela at the end of June. So he spends at most
three months travelling from la Guaira to Angostura.
His trip in Venezuela includes visit to Caracas, the Valle de Aragua (San Mateo and the El Palmar hacienda)
then south to San Juan del Moros, probably the Lllanos, then the Orinoco river up to Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar).
But he photographs only Caracas and the Valle de Aragua. A quote from his diary explains why : “In order to simplify my trip,
I left my cameras at “El Palmar” which I wouldn’t have been able to use anyway in the Llanos, and my extra luggage as well, requesting them to send it on to Saint Thomas from La Guaira. I found them there after several months.”
From Angostura he probably sails back to Saint-Thomas and then to Veracruz, Mexico.
El grande Samang, cerca de Turmero, valle de Aragua
Rosti lands on 8 August 1858 in Southampton. From there, it is very likely that he travels to Paris, then
Hungary thru Berlin. On November 1st 1858, Rosti visits Alexander Von Humboldt, the inspiration for his travel,
in his house in Berlin and offers him an album of forty seven photographic views (the copy presently at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne). At the beginning of 1859, he exhibits his photographic views of Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico at the National Casino in Budapest.
La Pastora
The bindings of all four existing album bear the mark of Despierres from Paris. We therefore know that
all prints were made between his arrival in Southampton and his arrival in Berlin. It is more than likely that
the prints were also made in Paris – the Le Gray atelier a prime suspect for such a wonderful job. We also
know that Rosti had less than three months, between his arrival in England and his meeting with Humboldt,
to have the photographs printed and the album bound – including travel time from Southampton to Berlin via Paris.
That might explain why so few copies of the album are known.
Hacienda de azucar, près de Caracas
San Mateo
Four albums are known, three of which are located in Hungary and one in Germany. The contents of
the three albums located in Hungary are not identical. The copy in the National Széchenyi Library which
was originally given to the Hungarian National Museum contains 45 prints, the album in the Museum of Photography
contains 47 prints, the album of the Loránd Eötvös Geophysical Institute contains 40 prints. The album in
Cologne contained 47 prints (with 5 missing today).
In the two 47 prints albums, four pictures show parts of Havana, 11 photograph landscapes and buildings in Venezuela, and the remaining 32 from Mexico.
La maison de Bolivar
Une plantation de café
San Juan de los Moros
The whereabouts of the paper negatives are unknown. None of the photographs he might have taken in France or the United States have ever been found.
Photos taken from the website :https://earlylatinamerica.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/earliest-photographic-views-of-venezuela-1857/
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