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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Désiré Charnay

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Born: Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay 
Dates:  1828, 2 May - 1915, 24 October
Born:  France, Rhône, Fleurieux
Died:  France, Paris
Active:  France / Mexico / Madagascar
Gender:  Male
 
  
Between 1862-1863 he published Cités et ruines américaines based upon his 1857 expedition. His work along with that of Stephens and Catherwood helped to establish interest in the archaeological sites of Central America.

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Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Charnay, Désiré, 1860, Álbum fotográfico mexicano, (Julio Michaud) [Δ] 
  
Charnay, Désiré, 1863, Cités et ruines Américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal, (Paris: Gide, Editeur, A. Morel et Cie.) [Δ] 
  
Charnay, Désiré, 1885, Les anciennes villes du nouveau monde [Δ] 
  
Davis, Keith F., 1981, Désiré Charnay: Expeditionary Photographer, (University of New Mexico Press) isbn-10: 082630592X isbn-13: 978-0826305923 [Δ] 
  
 
  
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Portraits 
  
If you have a portrait of this photographer or know of the whereabouts of one we would be most grateful. 
  
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Family history 
  
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ThumbnailDésiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas
ThumbnailDésiré Charnay: The Great Palace at Mitla, interior of the Court
ThumbnailDésiré Charnay: The Nunnery, Uxmal
 
 
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Internet biographies

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo 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 siteGo to website
 

Printed biographies

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.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Désiré Charnay.] 
  
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.454 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Naef, Weston 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum - Handbook of the Photographic Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum) p.90 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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