Gustave Le Gray
French Photographer · 1820–1884
37 works on LinkedCulture
Though he was trained as a painter, Gustave Le Gray made his mark in the emerging medium of photography. An experimenter and technical innovator, Le Gray pioneered the use of the paper negative in France and developed a waxed-paper negative that produced sharper-focus prints. In 1851 he began to use collodion on glass negatives, which further increased the clarity of his images. He became one of t
Works

Camp de Châlons
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Chalons. 1857. alignment.
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Arab festival improvised by the Zouaves.
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Artillery of the Imperial Guard.
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: cavalry maneuvers
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Encampment scene.
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Fantassia
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard.
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: La Messe
Getty Museum · September 20, 1857

Camp de Châlons: Lanciers et dragons
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Quarters of the artillery of the Imperial Guard.
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: The Cent-Gardes
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: The Zouave storyteller
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Voltigeurs de la Garde
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Zouaves - le coiffeur
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp de Châlons: Zouaves of the Imperial Guard
Getty Museum · 1857

Camp du Châlons: Artillery of the Imperial Guard.
Getty Museum · 1857

Cavalry Maneuvres with Receding Road
Getty Museum · 1857

Factory, Terre-Noire
Getty Museum · 1851–1855

Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons
Getty Museum · 1857
![Messe au camp de Châlons [with an X marking the position of Verly in the photograph]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/4ff576a7-c9ab-4d59-b3b0-9fec1f433033/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Messe au camp de Châlons [with an X marking the position of Verly in the photograph]
Getty Museum · 1857

Officers seated near the Emperor's pavilion
Getty Museum · 1857

Panorama of the Camp at Châlons (six photographs in three frames)
Getty Museum · 1857

Panorama of the Camp at Châlons (six photographs in three frames)
Getty Museum · 1857

Panorama of the Camp at Châlons (six photographs in three frames)
Getty Museum · 1857

Panorama of the Camp at Châlons (six photographs in three frames)
Getty Museum · 1857

Portrait of Victor Cousin
Getty Museum · 1854–1859
![[Salon of 1852]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d4dfda31-04b0-423b-8f20-7ff3e0bca167/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Salon of 1852]
Getty Museum · 1852
![[Sedan/ Roi de Prusee/ Prince Charles/ Bismarck/ Sur la Hauteursde la Marfee le 1er juin 70]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/87cbe2de-8c78-4f1c-9bf7-aa73a749cbcf/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Sedan/ Roi de Prusee/ Prince Charles/ Bismarck/ Sur la Hauteursde la Marfee le 1er juin 70]
Getty Museum · 1870

The Bivouac
Getty Museum · 1857

The Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Amon, Karnak
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Unidentified man with longish hair and mustache, seated on hassock, holding hat]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0a22f48b-c221-4f1e-8d9d-71926753b987/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified man with longish hair and mustache, seated on hassock, holding hat]
Getty Museum · about 1865
![[View at Camp de Chalons]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e589497d-cdba-4f42-94a0-061e40c215a1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View at Camp de Chalons]
Getty Museum · about 1857

Visitors to the Camp de Châlons
Getty Museum · 1857