Important Swiss art photographer who came from artist family from Geneva. In 1887 Boissonnas became a member of the Geneva Photographic Society. He traveled to Greece many times and was hired by the Greek government in the 1910s to create an album entitled “The images of Greece”.
His art photographs of Thessaloniki, Skopje, Prilep, Bitola, etc. can be found in several books published by “Editions d’Art Boissonnas” in Geneva, in the period of 1913-1920, for example: “Le berceau des Serbes; photographies de Fred. Boissonnas; introduction de D. Baud-Bovy. Genève: Éditions d’art Boissonnas 1919, and Fred Boissonnas – La Macédoine Occidentale, Editions d’Art Boissonnas 1921, etc.
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While searching for “Macedonian art” I run in June 2015 to a Romanian antique photos dealer, Mrs. Margarit Sorin from Bucharest Romania. From her vast