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Alfred Saint Ange Briquet, Mexico, Vera Cruz, Cercania de Orizaba, Cascadas [MV6445]Catégorie :Amérique, America > Mexique, Mexico
Année : Circa 1885
Type : Tirage albuminé
Format (cm): 24,5x32vintage albumen print
Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet (30 December 1833, Paris – 1926, Mexico) was a French pioneer of photography, particularly in Mexico.
Briquet became a photographer in Paris in 1854. He taught photography at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the prominent French military academy. In 1876, he receive a commission to record the construction of the Mexican National Railway (Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano - FNM) line being built between Veracruz and Mexico City. He gained the attention of President Porfirio Díaz and secured a number of commissions. He also published a series of photography books: Vistas Mexicanas, Tipos Mexicanos and Antiquedades Mexicanos. Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910 he no longer received any government contracts.Image complémentaire Informations complémentaires relatives à la vente Ces photographies sont vendues sur le site et sont originales, sans aucune indication.
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