Comte Olympe Aguado

French Photographer · 1827–1894

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Descended from a noble Spanish banking family, Count Olympio-Clémente Aguado de las Marismas began to photograph about 1849. As one of the early practitioners who "welcome[d] the new art and who devoted to it not a little energy and money, but their fortunes and their lifetimes," Aguado made both daguerreotypes and calotypes and may even have exhibited his paper negatives. Eventually turning to co