b. 1811 Besançon, France, d. 1877
photographer
French
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 Exposition Universelle.
By the early 1860s, Braun's focus had shifted to the making of topographical views of scenes throughout Europe and, beginning in 1866, to reproductions of works of art. The reproduction of paintings, drawings, lithographs, engravings, and sculpture was an important endeavor in France, and photography provided an accurate record. Braun opened a photography studio that became one of the world's largest publishers of such images. In 1869 Braun's was one of only two photographic firms invited to photograph the opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
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Braun, Adolphe
French (1812-1877)
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Floral Still Life
ALBUM TITLE: "Fleurs, Photographiees de Adolphe Braun"
ca. 1857
albumen print
20.8 x 17.1 cm. (oval)
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 31905
67:0045:0006
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 351.//
NOTES: Catalogued 5/90, MMC.
SUBJECT: still life, flowers
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