| Names: | Born: Antoine François Jean Claudet
Born: Antoine-François-Jean Claudet
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| | Dates: | 1797, 16 July - 1867, 27 December | | Born: | France, Lyons | | Died: | Great Britain, London | | Active: | England | | Gender: | Male |
The first professional daguerreotypist in England
An exhibition on the work of Richard Beard and Antoine François Jean Claudet curated by Geoffrey Batchen at the Yale Center for British Art is scheduled to open in October 2011.Preparing biographies | |
Family history
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Exhibitions on this website |
 | Antoine Claudet: Leather slipcases for stereo Daguerreotypes |
|  | Antoine Claudet: Portrait of Michael Faraday - Copy of an old Daguerreotype |
|  | Antoine Claudet: Portrait of a Lady (Stereo Daguerreotype) |
|  | Antoine Claudet: Portrait of William Fox Talbot |
|  | Antoine Claudet: Stereo Daguerreotypes |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
[NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.] | Show on this site | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.]
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.42 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.106
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Antoine Claudet.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.111 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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