Album photographique de l'artiste et de l'amateur .1851. Blanquart-Evrard, Louis Désiré, 1802-1872
Album photographique de l'artiste et de l'amateur
Salt prints (Blanquart-Evrard process; ca. 24 x 18 cm. or smaller)
mounted on rectos of leaves within printed gold borders. Sequence nos.
1-36 are printed in gold above, captions below. Most leaves have blind
stamp with album title at foot
Originally issued in fascicles of 3 prints per month. See Encyclopédie internationale
Bound in brown morocco-grained cloth, stamped in blind, title stamped in gilt on top board. Backed in brown goatskin, spine title in gilt. Page edges gilt
Originally issued in fascicles of 3 prints per month. See Encyclopédie internationale
Bound in brown morocco-grained cloth, stamped in blind, title stamped in gilt on top board. Backed in brown goatskin, spine title in gilt. Page edges gilt
Era un comerciante de ropa que en la década de 1840 se empezó a interesar por la fotografía. Estudió el calotipo y en 1847 fue el primero en difundir este procedimiento en Francia, mejoró sustancialmente el proceso al emplear nitrato de plata, yoduro de potasio y situando el papel húmedo directamente en la cámara entre dos cristales. En 1850 desarrolló y publicó la técnica de la copia en papel a la albúmina, que alcanzó pronto un gran éxito.
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard was a cloth merchant from Lille, France who learned the calotype
process from his druggist, a student of the inventor of the calotype,
William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1847 Blanquart-Evrard became the first to
publish the procedure for the calotype negative/positive paper process
in France. He specialized in printing and issuing portfolios of
photographs by other photographers, but perhaps his most significant
contribution was the introduction in 1850 of the albumen paper print process, the primary printing medium until gelatin papers superceded it in the late 1800s.