Excursions Daguerriennes. Vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe
Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours French
Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau French
Not on view
Before the rise of paper photography in the 1850s, artists relied on illustrated publications to reproduce unique daguerreotype views. The most ambitious of these publications, Noël-Paymal Lerebours’s Excursions daguerriennes, first appeared in 1840. Lerebours commissioned and acquired daguerreotypes from around the globe. The Swiss-born entrepreneur Joly contributed the first photograph of the Parthenon, made in October 1839, noting that "each year can bring new changes to the appearance of the celebrated ruins."
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