Author serge-plantureux

Naturselbstdruck or Nature printing is a printing process, developed in the 18th century that uses the plants, animals, rocks and other natural subjects to produce an image. The subject undergoes…

Following Legray, Bisson and Disdéri, Nadar bring up his studio at 35, boulevard des Capucines in 1860.…

The salt paper print represent the portrait of a young man in a dark coat, his feet have been cropped. The print presents some foxing. A wet stamp precise: «Gustave…

Camera Lucida reinvented The camera lucida was patented in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston «to facilitate accurate sketching of objects». It consists of a […]…

Villa Medicis appears slowly as an influencial place for the early days of Photography, since the experiment of Girault de Prangey in May 1842 till the Golden Age of the…

«A cult of personality developed in the Soviet Union around both Stalin and Lenin. Many personality cults in history have been frequently measured and compared to his... He accepted grandiloquent…

The Papal States were territories in the Italian Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope, from the 8th century until 1870.…

The presence on some mounts of a stamp linked this group of vintage silver prints to a German geographer Bernhard Brandt (21.3.1881 Berlin - 20.1.1938 Prag). The captions point out…