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Last Name Blanquart-Évrard

Given Name Louis Desiré

alt. Names L. D. B.-E. ;

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Year born 1802

Year died 1872

Place of death Lille

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Education originally cloth-merchant; learned the calotype process from a student of its inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot

Country of Activity France

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Patronage

Collaborators Hippolyte Fockedey: opening of the Imprimerie Photographique Blanquart-Evrard in 1851 ; photographer ->Thomas Sutton around 1855 ; photographer Louis De Clercq ; photographer Maxime Du Camp ; photographer John B. Greene ; photographer Auguste Salzmann ;

Techniques technical photography ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tartan_Ribbon.jpg ;

Archival sources http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=STN842; wwar.com/masters/b/blanquart-evrard-louis-desire.htm

Published sources Gerda Peterich: L.D.B.-E. The Gutenberg of Photography, in: Image 50 (April 1957): 80-9 ; http://etudesphotographiques.revues.org/index925.html ;

other In 1855, L.D.B.-E. set up a photography company in Jersey with photography & business partner ->Thomas Sutton.

Since 1844 calotypie (or talbotype), publ. improved variant in 1847 in France; since 1850 photography on albumin paper ;

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