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Henri Le Secq
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Henri Le Secq

Born: Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq
Born: Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles

Born: 1818, 18 August - France, Paris
Died: 1882, 26 December
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
Early French photographer who used waxed paper negatives. Among his finest works are the architectural shots he took for the ‘Commission des Monuments Historiques‘.

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Gustave Le Gray, 1847, 31 December, Portrait of Henri Le Secq, Photograph, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie (BnF), LL/57308
Image: LL/57308
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Henri Le Secq, 1850s, Henri Le Secq looking at his watch [Henri Le Secq regardant sa montre, assis dans un fauteuil], Photograph, Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, LL/60694
Image: LL/60694
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Charles Nègre, 1853, The Vampire (Henri Le Secq at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris), Salted paper print, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/33097
Image: LL/33097
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Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles (18 August 1818 - 26 December 1882) was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1839, Le Secq was one of the five photographers selected to carry out a photographic survey of architecture (Commission des Monuments Historiques).
 

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