The Beach at Saint-Adresse

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The Beach at Saint-Adresse

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Gustave Le Gray

French Photographer · 1820–1884

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Though he was trained as a painter, Gustave Le Gray made his mark in the emerging medium of photography. An experimenter and technical innovator, Le Gray pioneered the use of the paper negative in France and developed a waxed-paper negative that produced sharper-focus prints. In 1851 he began to use collodion on glass negatives, which further increased the clarity of his images. He became one of t

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1856
Medium
Albumen silver print from a glass negative
Culture
French
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Photographs
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