[Ancient Reservoir, Place Jean-Baptiste Clément, Montmartre]

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[Ancient Reservoir, Place Jean-Baptiste Clément, Montmartre]

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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 1843–1845
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
770ed18d-c17d-40d4-a5b9-345be954516d

An ancient reservoir surrounded by a wrought-iron fence. The reservoir is decorated with relief sculptures and an urn set into a niche. A set of stairs leads up a small hill to the reservoir. A man wearing a hat is standing on the hill looking to the reservoir.

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