Adolphe Braun

(b. May 2, 1812)

Works

Adolphe Braun was a 19th-century French photographer and printmaker known for his landscape photography and hand-colored albumen prints. He pioneered photographic techniques and was influential in establishing photography as a fine art.

French Nineteenth Century Monochrome Photograph Documentary Carbon Print Albumen Print Landscape 19th Century Photography Nature Still Life

Switzerland. Grindelwald, Upper Glacier, Source of the Lutschine

1875

Young Alsacienne Woman

1871

Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar

1870

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England

1870

Sculptures from the Parthenon, British Museum

Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (from the album Charbons de Braun- vues prises avec l'objectif panoramique mobile, 1868)

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