Names: | | Dates: | 1810, 21 July - 1878, 19 January | Born: | France, Aix-la-Chapelle | Active: | France | Worked on early photographic techniques and chemistry - he became director of the Sevres porcelain factory (1854-1871). In 1854 he was the first president of the ‘Société Française de Photographie‘.Preparing biographies
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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | | 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.] | | Go to website | The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA has a biography on this photographer. [Scroll down the page on this website as the biography may not be immediately visible.] | | 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. |
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.464-465 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
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