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Last Name Boutan

Given Name Louis Marie Auguste

alt. Names L. M. A. B. ;

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Year born 1859 in Versailles, France

Year died 1934

Place of death Tighzirt-sur-Mer, France

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Education studied at Saint-Louis high school; biology at Univ.Paris, specialization in marine biology at in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Ph.D. 1886

Country of Activity France

Worked for marine biologist Prof. De Lacaze-Duthiers at the Sorbonne ; his own books 1894-1900, e.g., La Photographie sous-marine (Paris 1900) ; Dissections et manipulations de zoologie ; Zoologie descriptive: anatomie, histologie et dissection des formes typiques d'invertébrés ;

Patronage French Marine; Argo Laboratory in Banylus-Sur-Mer 1892-1900 ; Zoological Station in Arachon (director 1920-24)

Collaborators underwater camera maker Alvergniat in Paris ;

Techniques marine, ichthyological, and zoological photography

Sample(s) www.google.de/search?q=louis+boutan ; http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/louis-boutan/ ;

Archival sources http://fadedandblurred.com/blog/the-worlds-first-underwater-photographer-louis-boutan/ ;

Published sources L. B.: La Photographie sous-marine et les progrès de la photographie (Paris 1900) ;

other L. B. is mostly known as marine biologist, also active in Australia (1880), in the Red Sea, in Indochina (1904-08). Pioneer of underwater photography 1886-1900.

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