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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Jean-Gabriel Eynard

 
Names:
Other: Jean-Gabriel Eynard-Lullin 
Dates:  1775, 28 December - 1863, 5 February
Born:  Switzerland (check Auer gives France, Lyons)
Active:  Switzerland
Gender:  Male
 
  
Early Swiss photographer who took Daguerreotype studies of his family and servants.
Michel Auer is compiling a catalogue raisonné of the daguerreotypes of Jean-Gabriel Eynard and if you contact me I will put you in touch. (October 2010)

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Jean-Gabriel Eynard
Self-Portrait 
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Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
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Internet biographies

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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
 

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.] 
  
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.456 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Naef, Weston 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum - Handbook of the Photographic Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum) p.36-37 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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