Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

Victor Mottez (1809-1897, painter), 1859, Portrait of Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, Oil painting, Musée des Beaux-Arts, LL/42149

Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

Other: Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

Born: 1802, 2 August - France, Lille
Died: 1872, 28 April - France, Lille
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
A cloth merchant from Lille, France who took up the calotype process and in 1847 published a method for a negative/positive paper process. He used this process to print and publish the works of other photographers. By 1851 taking advantage of his own innovations he was able to print two or three hundred prints a day from the same negative and this rapid production allowed the creation of salt paper prints that could be tipped-in to books that he published. Key books and albums of prints by John Beasly Greene, Charles Marville and Henri Le Secq were printed by Blanquart-Evrard. In 1856 with Thomas Sutton he founded the magazine Photographic Notes, a journal which continued for eleven years.

Genealogy of Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

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