This is a study of landscape and architectural photographer, Edouard Baldus (1813-1889), a central figure in early French photography. His greatest achievements

This book, the first to chronicle the life and career of this important artist, brings his work once more before the public.

Édouard Baldus (18131889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-nineteenth century.

"Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated photographer during the 1850s, the young medium's most glorious moment. After studying law and painting,

Photography emerged in 1839 in two forms simultaneously. In France, Louis Daguerre produced photographs on silvered sheets of copper, while in Great Britain, Wi