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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Jean Baptiste Corot

Names:
Born: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 
Other: Camille Corot 
Dates:  1796, 17 July - 1875, 22 February
Born:  France, Paris
Died:  France, Paris
Active:  France
Gender:  Male
 
  
French painter, draughtsman and photographer.

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Etienne Carjat
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 
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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.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

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

 
• Newhall, Beaumont 1982 The History of Photography - Fifth Edition (London: Secker & Warburg) [One or more photographs by Jean Baptiste Corot are included in this classic history.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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