| Names: | Other: Gilles Louis Chretien
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| | Dates: | 1754, 5 February - 1811, 6 March | | Born: | France, Versailles | | Died: | France, Paris | | Active: | France | | Gender: | Male |
French musician at the court at Versaille. His significance to photography is his invention of the Physionotrace which was a mechanical device created in the late 18th century for the creation of portraits. Although it was not a chemical process like the Daguerreotype or the calotype it was significant as it involved a mechanistic approach to the creation of images, an ideal tool for an age of science and reason, and was distinct from traditional drawing or painting.Preparing biographies | | Portraits
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