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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers

Dates:  1821, 15 May - 1901, 21 July
Born:  France, Lot-et-Garonne, Montpezat
Active:  France
 
  
A world authority on mollusks who carried out research on the light-sensitive properties of Murex Brandaris. If the sea-snail is broken open it can reveal a yellow slime that changes in sunlight to Tyrian Purple (dibromo-indigo) - a natual photo-sensitive extract. Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers used Purpura Lapillus in 1859 to make contact prints that were fixed by washing.
 
His obituary in the Year-book of the Royal Society -1902, (London: Harrison and Sons), p. 246 stated:
During a visit to Minorca, in 1858, he noticed an "ignorant fisherman" marking his clothes with the "purple of the ancients." This event led to the publication of the scholarly Memoire sur la Pourpre (1859), in which, by the citation of classical authorities and in other ways, he established the fact that the purple was probably that which is produced in certain species of Murex and Purpura, by what is now known as the hypobranchial gland ; and showed that the secretion of the gland acquires its final colour by exposure to the sunlight. A summary of this work appeared in vol. x. of the Proceedings of this Society.

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Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers 
1890s
 
  
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