Villeneuve les Avignon

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Villeneuve les Avignon

Creator

Édouard Baldus

French Photographer · 1813–1889

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"[E]veryone knows [Mr.] Baldus," a reviewer wrote in 1859. By the mid-1850s, Édouard-Denis Baldus was the most successful photographer in France and at the height of his career. He began as a painter, turning to photography in 1849 when paper negatives were just becoming popular. Throughout much of his life, he listed himself in city directories as peintre photographe (painter photographer), in re

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Date
about 1861
Medium
Albumen silver print
Department
Photographs
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View of a small town across a river and rocky shore with a large square tower in the midground.

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