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[Unidentified man seated, holding a newspaper]

Camille Silvy

Date: about 1866
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

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Creator

Camille Silvy

French Photographer · 1834–1910

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Artist

Camille Silvy once credited his start in photography to the influence of a drawing teacher he had as a child. Silvy had studied law and had become a diplomat, but it was after a visit to Algeria that he became a photographer. He met with early success photographing the landscape around the countryside outside of Paris where he grew up. One critic said of his landscapes: "It is difficult to obtain