Commandant d'Eggs

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Commandant d'Eggs

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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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Date
1857
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
44eee7d5-bd87-4d59-a9f9-442a9e7a3793

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