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Jules Robuchon (1840-1922)
Rue Victor-Hugo : Departure of the horse races from the place d'Armes, Poitiers
1899
Postcard, cyanotype
Médiathèque François Mitterrand
Fonds Gérard Simmat
LL/116021
(Daniel Clauzier, 1 December 2021) Jules Robuchon (1840-1922) was the first photographer to commercialise picture postcards in Poitiers, around 1899. He probably found the cyanotype process to be a cheap and easy solution since phototype presses were inexistent in the region. These cards were made on stock paper either from glass plate duplicates of his earlier albumen prints, or like here as a contact print from a recent snapshot negative. The titles are always hand written. He must have been fond of this particular snapshot, probably because of the unexpected bicycle accident in the left hand corner : several prints in various formats are known. A few of these early cards remain, but almost all of them are blank and new. The blue colour was probably unpopular, and the following year he had his cards printed in Nancy, at the Bergeret press.
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