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Gustave Le Gray
(From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia)
Gustave Le Gray
(1820–1884) is known as the most important French photographer of the
nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new
medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted
photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture
making.The Getty-Le Gray
Le Gray was originally trained as a painter, studying under Paul Delaroche,
but crossed over to the new medium of photography in the early years of
its development. He was more than just a photographer he expanded this new
medium with his technical inventions. One of the most defining is that of
the waxed-paper negative. This invention he developed and perfected in
France around 1849 as stated in A World History Of Photography by Naomi
Rosenblum.A World History of Photography Le Gray had also worked out a
collodion process at the same time, but did not publish either discovery
until 1851. This resulted in the collodion technology being accredited to
Frederick Scott Archer who discovered his process in 1850 and then
published it in 1851.
Later in life Le Gray expanded his horizons by touring the Mediterranean
with the writer Alexandre Dumas, pere. Le Gray then carried on to Lebanon
and ending his journeys in Egypt where he became a professor of drawing.
He died in 1884 in Cairo.
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Brig Upon the Water, 1856.
Albumen. Albumen print. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Trees and Pathways, 1849
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Gnarled Oak Tree,
1849-1852
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Factory at Terre-Noire,
1855
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Large Wave, Mediterranean
Sea
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The Beech Tree, 1856
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Cavalry Maneuvers, 1857
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Zouave Storyteller, 1857
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Mollien Pavilion, the
Louvre, 1859
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Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1860
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Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amun, Karnak, 1867
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Victor Cousin , 1854-1859
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Road to Chailly , 1856
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Lighthouse and Jetty , 1856-1857
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Camp de Chalons, 1857
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The Breaking Wave , Sète, 1857
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Emperor's Table , 1857
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Sailing Ship, 1857
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Great Wave, Sete , 1857
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Panorama, Chalons, 1857
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Tour St-Jacques, 1859
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Pius IX's Railroad Car, 1859
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Peristyle, Baalbek, 1860
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Pyramids, Gizeh, Egypt , 1865-1869
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Ships in Harbor, Cette
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