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Alphonse Poitevin
(1819 - 1882)
Panorama de Paris
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
musée d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
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all-round view
roof
chimney
urban landscape
aerial view
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About the artwork
Title:
Panorama de Paris
Periods:
19th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XIXth century
Techniques:
dry-collodion process
Dimensions:
136 x 182
Inventory number:
PHO1983-159
Detail:
vers 1855. Fonds Poitevin
Location:
musée d'Orsay
About the author(s)
Author:
Alphonse Poitevin
Born:
1819
Dead:
1882
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Alphonse Louis Poitevin
(Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that…
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