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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

Names:
Other: Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard 
Dates:  1802, 2 August - 1872, 28 April
Born:  France, Lille
Died:  France, Lille
Active:  France
Gender:  Male
 
  
Isabelle Jammes, Blanquart-Évrard et les origines de l'édition photographique française (Droz, 1981)
 
Gerda Peterich, "Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: The Gutenberg of Photography" , Image, No.50, April 1957, p.80-89 [Full text]

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Victor Mottez (1809-1897, painter)
Portrait of Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard 
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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo 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
Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. 
[NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.]		Show on this siteGo 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.] 
  
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.67-68 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard.] 
  
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.86-87 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.] 
  
 

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.28 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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