[An Arrangement of Tobacco Leaves and Grass]

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[An Arrangement of Tobacco Leaves and Grass]

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French Photographer · 1811–1877

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For more than thirty years, Charles Aubry designed patterns for fabric, carpet, and wallpaper manufacturers. In 1864, he started a company to produce plaster casts and photographs of flowers and plants. He made around one hundred-fifty negatives of plant still lifes his first year and became a master of the botanical still life. Although Aubry's goal was to establish an archive for artists and des

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

After working as a designer of patterns for carpets, fabrics, and wallpapers, Aubry formed a company to manufacture plaster casts and make photographs of plants and flowers. His detailed prints of natural forms were intended to replace the lithographs traditionally used by students of industrial design. This close-up of a delicate arrangement of leaves and grasses on a lace-covered background appears as if a slight movement of air could disturb it.

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