| Names: | | | Dates: | 1810, 21 July - 1878, 19 January | | Born: | France, Aix-la-Chapelle | | Active: | France | | Gender: | Male |
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
General reading
Aubenas, Sylvie & Roubert, Paul-Louis (eds.), 2010, Primitifs de la photographie, le calotype en France 1843-1860, (Gallimard BNF) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Dahlberg, Laurie, 2005, Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors, (Princeton University Press) isbn-13: 978-0691118796 [Δ]
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Family history
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 | Henri-Victor Regnault: Still Life: Cauldron, Pitcher, and Vegetables |
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All photographs by this photographer
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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