[Still life of game]

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[Still life of game]

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French Photographer · 1812–1877

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Trained as a fabric designer, Adolphe Braun began his photography career in 1853. His photographs of flowers, for a catalog titled *Fleurs photographiées,* were to be transferred onto printing blocks for wallpaper and fabric designs. It was an extremely successful project for Braun; one album of the photographs was presented to Empress Eugénie of France, and it earned him a medal at the 1855 Paris

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Date: 1865
Medium: Carbon print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

French studio photographer Adolphe Braun began making photographs of animals as visual aids for painters who were unable to observe these subjects directly from nature. He quickly shifted from producing merely useful images to creating staged compositions that were modeled after painted still lifes. Often quite large in scale, these photographs were intended as artworks in their own right, designed to compete with decorative lithographs of more expensive paintings.

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