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Pierre Petit

Date: 1864–1865
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

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Creator

Pierre Petit

French Photographer · 1832–1909

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"Pierre Petit is a photographer, nothing but a photographer," wrote Petit's biographer in 1876, identifying his subject as an accomplished specialist in his field whose work was not diluted by the practice of other media. Having started with daguerreotypes in 1849, Petit experimented with paper negatives on a trip to Rome in 1854. After a brief partnership with Trinquart, Petit became the sole pro

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