[Entrance to a Tower]

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[Entrance to a Tower]

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
6f586d1f-1d33-4b81-9f42-fa761bfcfa12

Entrance to a stone cylindrical tower at the corner of a large building, possibly a castle. A rectangular doorway with a set of steps forms the entrance. There is a small tree planted next to the doorway.

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