Adolphe Braun
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Landscapes Art Work
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Adolphe Braun |
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| Place of Birth: |
Besancon, France |
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French |
| Birth: |
1812 |
| Death: |
1877 |
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Quick Facts
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Landscapes |
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Photography
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Biography
| Braun worked in Paris as textile designer, discovering his interest in photography in 1853, when he photographed a collection of 300 studies of flowers intended to serve as a model for painters and fabric designers. He created portraits, landscapes, still lifes and unposed spontaneous, pictures of urban life. He traveled extensively in Europe and also in Egypt, producing panoramic landscape pictures. He published an album of photographs of the landscapes of Alsace in 1858. From 1859 onwards, he collaborated with many other french photographers, and from 1858 to 1862, he photographed landscapes in Switzerland, Germany and France. He was a member of the Societe Francaise de Photographie since 1867, and became official photographer to the Pope Pius IX in the same year. In 1868-70, he photographed in the Vatican, working on pictures of the Sistine Chapel and the sculpture collections. He produced a large collection of reproductions of works of art, including drawings and paintings in many of the great museums of Europe. |
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