| Names: | Other: Joseph Pholbert Girault de Parangey
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| | Dates: | 1804 - 1892 | | Born: | France, Haute-Marne, Langres | | Died: | France, Haute-Marne, Langres | | Active: | France / Italy / Greece / Egypt / Turkey / Syria / Asia Minor / Palestine | | Gender: | Male |
In 1842 he set off on a tour of Italy, Greece and the Middle East taking between 800 and 900 daguerreotypes of ancient monuments.Preparing biographies | | |
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | 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 |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Naef, Weston 2004 Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum) [For this photographer there is a description and three sample photographs from the Getty collection. p.20-23]
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