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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Daniel Masclet

Dates:  1892, 1 April - 1969, 16 September
Born:  France, Blois
Died:  France, Paris
Active:  France
Gender:  Male
 
  
French Cellist and photographer who worked as the technical assistant for Baron de Meyer at Harper‘s Bazaar. He also wrote and taught widely on the aesthetics of photography.

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Portrait of Daniel Masclet 
1930s (ca)
 
  
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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.] 
  
• 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.166 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Daniel Masclet.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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