Himself and workshop. Upload, stitch and restoration by Jebulon
Description
Français : Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (1802-1872), chimiste, imprimeur et photographe français, inventeur du procédé de l'Impression à l'albumine en photographie. Reproduction (par l'auteur) extraite de son ouvrage de 1869 (La photographie, ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations / par Blanquart-Evrard) d'une impression à l'albumine.
English: Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (1802-1872), French chemist, printer and photographer, inventor of the albumen print process in photography. Reproduction (by the author himself) in his 1869 book (La photographie, ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations / by Blanquart-Evrard) of an albumen print.
Date
1869 for photograph, 2013-02-17 17:15:50 for upload.
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: cloning out of spots and tears, cleaning of dirt. With GIMP.
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