The Tower of the Winds, Athens

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The Tower of the Winds, Athens

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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

French Daguerreotypist · 1804–1892

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Until recently, pioneering daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was unknown in the world of fine-art photography. His extraordinary images were discovered in a storeroom of his estate in the 1920s and only made known some eighty years later. Girault de Prangey studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and learned daguerreotypy in 1841, the same year inventor Louis-Jacque

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Date
1842
Medium
Daguerreotype
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
5a1e2fe0-2fcd-4493-92c9-76c130d541a2

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Distant view of this clock tower within the context of the city.

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