[French factory scene]

Creator

French Daguerreotypist · 1805–1887

François Adolphe Certes was an administrative director of forestry and water supply in the southern French district of Sète. He became an amateur photographer, specializing in Paris scenes. Certes also photographed the port of Sète outside the city and landscapes in the French Alps. Scholars believe that a daguerreotype of trees near Grenoble that Certes made around 1845 is the first photograph ma