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[Street scene, Montmartre]
Creator
Hippolyte BayardFrench Photographer · 1801–1887
All works by this person →Frenchman Hippolyte Bayard was one of the earliest experimenters in photography, though few will recognize his name today. While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he devoted much of his free time to inventing processes that captured and fixed images from nature on paper using a basic camera, chemicals, and light. The announcement of the invent
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1842
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 102db3e7-a085-4894-b0b6-5d08c206ec19
From the Getty Museum record
Street scene with the blades of windmills visible in the distance. A shop with "Debray, Traiteur" painted above the doorway is in the foreground.
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