About This Image

Two images of the famous father and son photographing each other at the same moment. The set of images is extremely rare.

Provenance: Collection of Emile Zola by descent to his grandson Francois Emile Zola; Daniel Blau.

A noted author (one of the first to use slang words), Zola was marked by his staunch and famous defense of Alfred Dreyfus. He was also an amateur photographer, who owned at least ten cameras. Zola counted photographers Nadar, Pierre Petit and Etienne Carjat among his many friends. But Victor Billaud, the writer, poet, editor, and journalist of Royan, who had joined Zola's entourage there in 1888, introduced the writer to photography.

See: Francois Emile-Zola and Massin, Zola Photographer, (Collins, London, 1988) p.6 for full page image of this photo of Zola taken by his son.

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