Adolphe Braun
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Adolphe Braun
(b Besan?on, 1812; d Dornach, 1877). French photographer. He worked in Paris as a textile designer, discovering his interest in photography in 1853, when he photographed a collection of 300 studies of flowers intended to serve as models for painters and fabric designers. He set up a studio in Paris in 1868. His subjects were very diverse
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Adolphe Braun
Braun, Adolphe (1812-77), French photographic entrepreneur, mainly active in Mulhouse, Alsace. After success as a textile and porcelain designer, Braun took up photography in the early 1850s, probably encouraged by the textile manufacturer and photography enthusiast Daniel Dollfus-Ausset. He made his debut in 1854 with an acclaimed album of c.300 wet-plate flower photographs, then turned to commercial view photography in various formats (including stereoscopic and panoramic). By the late 1860s, the firm had a catalogue of c.6, 000 Swiss, German, French, and other views, corresponding to the main tourist routes. (They also included mountain scenes, mainly from Haute-Savoie.) In 1871 Braun photographed the ravages of the Franco-Prussian War, and scored a political succès de scandale, after the German annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, with a photograph of two girls in the costumes of the lost provinces.
In 1866 Braun had branched out into art reproduction, using the carbon process acquired from the Englishman Joseph Wilson Swan. Using a fully industrialized plant, the firm was soon offering numerous high-quality prints from major galleries; in 1883, six years after Braun's death, it signed a 30-year exclusive contract with the Louvre, making reproduction its principal business.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Bergstein, M., and O'Brien, M. B. (eds.), Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun (2000)
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