Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement (
Gonneville-la-Mallet March 12, 1840 – September 10, 1905 Pornic) was a 19th-century French
architectural photographer
Early architectural photographers include Roger Fenton, Francis Frith (Middle East and Britain), Samuel Bourne, Inclined Studio (India) and Albert Levy (United States and Europe). They paved the way for the modern speciality of architectural phot ...
. He worked chiefly from Blois.
He specialized in French
monument historique
''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...
photographic documentation, and after 1881 was assigned to photograph all the cathedrals of France for the Ministère des cultes.
Biography
Bibliography
* Farid Abdelouahab (ed.) ''Regards objectifs: Mieusement et Lesueur, photographes à Blois''. Exh. cat. Paris, Somogy, 2000, 183 p. ()
* Gilbert Beaugé. ''La photographie en Provence 1839–1895''. Paris: Jeanne Laffitte, 1995, 175 p. (, )
References
External links
BnF Data for
Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement(1840-1905)"
Digital Collections from the INHA Library
J. Paul Getty Museum for
Médéric Mieusement
See also
Architectural photographers
1840 births
1905 deaths
19th-century French photographers
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