Introduction to the History of Photography

   Flower studies, 1855 , by Adolphe Braun Still Life of a Hunting Scene  Adolphe Braun negative about 1867, print about 1880 Carbon print, 30 7/16 x 22 1/8 in. Adolphe Braun  b. 1811 Besançon, France, d. 1877 photographer French “Trained as a fabric designer, Adolphe Braun began his photography career in 1853. His photographs of flowers, for a catalog titled Fleurs photographiées, were to be transferred onto printing blocks for wallpaper and fabric designs. It was an extremely successful project for Braun; one album of the photographs was presented to Empress Eugénie of France, and it earned him a medal at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle. By the early 1860s, Braun's focus had shifted to the making of topographical views of scenes throughout Europe and, beginning in 1866, to reproductions of works of art. The reproduction of paintings, drawings, lithographs, engravings, and sculpture was an important endeavor in France, and photo...