[Façade of a Church]

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[Façade of a Church]

Creator

Hippolyte Bayard

French Photographer · 1801–1887

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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

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Date
about 1840–1849
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
46ecb52f-2026-4d8c-adaf-6c4f7c318be0

The facade of a church with a set of double doors, framed by an arch. There is a large window above the doorway with arched tracery. A statue of a male figure is on a small pedestal in front of the window.

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