Henri Le Secq
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Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1839, Le Secq was one of the five photographers sel
Portrait of Henri Le Secq (1848) by Gustave Le Gray
Strasbourg Cathedral
Large figures on the North porch, Chartres Cathedral
Charles Nègre
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Charles Nègre was a pioneering photographer, born in Grasse, France. He studied under the painters Paul Delaroche, Ingres and Drolling before establishing his own studio at 21 Quai Bourbon on the Île
Henri Le Secq
…still working as a painter in the studio of Paul Delaroche. He experimented with various photograph processing techniques together with his colleague Charles Nègre and later worked with Gustave Le Gray learning the waxed-paper negative process. This process had the advantage that it produced negatives unlike the…
Henri Le Secq and "Le Stryge" on Notre Dame de Paris, photographed by Nègre in 1853