Item sets

• Mission Pelliot Archive
  An expedition under the guidance of the French scholar Paul Pelliot conducted between 1906 and 1908, which gave the opportunity to one of its participants – Charles Nouette – to constitute a comprehensive archive of photographs. Several public institutions are holding materials from this archive.
• Stéphane Passet Archive
  Stéphane Passet took Autochromes in China in 1912 and 1913. He was an appointed operator on behalf of the "Archives de la Planète" [Archives of the Planet].
• Louis-Philippe Messelier Archive
  Louis-Philippe Messelier was a French journalist engaged in the business of wool during the 1930s. Based in the French concession of Shanghai, his photographs depicted the rapid changes occurring in Republican China.
• John Thomson Archive
  John Thomson was a Scottish photographer who travelled extensively across Asia in the 1870s. Several public institutions are holding his works.
• Auguste François Archive
  Auguste François was a French Consul in China between 1896 and 1904. As a diplomat and amateur photographer, he compiled an archive composed of around three thousand glass plates and photographic prints with detailed captions.
• Private Archive of the 1970s
  Catherine and Olivier de B. were brother and sister and two amateurs photographers who stayed three weeks in China between July and August 1971. They compiled an archive of over a hundred still images as well as moving images.
• White Villa Collection
  A private collection comprised exclusively of Chinese contemporary photographs. Initiated in 1999, it gathers significant artists that have impacted on the history of contemporary photography in China since the 1980s onwards.
• Mission Citroën Archive
  The Mission Citröen - also called La Croisière Jaune - was organised by the French car company André Citroën and aimed to drive across the Asian continent in the 1930s. This mission left an extensive photographic archive currently held at the Centre d’archives de Terre Blanche.
• Fonds Bontemps
  This archive encompasses 400 still images and 23 silent films originally taken by André Bontemps, a deputy army judge who lived in the French Concession in Tianjin from 1931 to 1935.
• Albert Gervais Archive
  Jen-I-Kouan – aka Albert Gervais – was a French Doctor who lived in Western China between 1919 and 1925. This private archive unveils this person’s memory through his photographic archives, texts and other documents.
• Private archive of the 1980s
  A private archive that encompasses photographs (color slides), negatives, audio recordings, and manuscripts amongst other documents, all taken in China during the 1980’s.
• Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard Archive
  Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard was a French Sinologist sent to Beijing between 1934 and 1939 to catalogue the French collection at the Department of Foreign Collections at the Beijing National Library. On that occasion, she took over 1000 photographs across China.
• Louis Finot Collection
  Louis Finot (1864-1935) was a French archaeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. He was one of the former directors of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient [EFEO, The French School of the Far East] and left some 2770 glass plates to this research centre.
• Musée Cernuschi Collection
  The Cernuschi Museum in Paris is one of the very few French institutions specializing in Asian art. Its collection encompasses ancient and modern art works, alongside a lesser-known photographic archives held at its Library, such as 1) the Victor Goloubew collection, 2) the Comte de Polignac collection, and 3) Documentary resources: Archaeological excavations - China.