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''L'Illustration'' (; 1843–1944) was a French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the first international illustrated magazine; distributed in 150 countries. History In 1891, ''L'Illustration'' became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph. Many of these photographs came from syndicated photo-press agencies like Chusseau-Flaviens, but the publication also employed its own photographers such as Léon Gimpel and others. In 1907, ''L'Illustration'' was the first to publish a ''color'' photograph. It also published Gaston Leroux' novel ''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'' as a serial a year before its 1908 release. ''La Petite Illustration'' was the name of the supplement to ''L'Illustration'' that published fiction, plays, and other arts-related material. During the Second World War, while it was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter I Of Serbia
Peter I (; – 16 August 1921) was King of Serbia from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later. Since he was the king of Serbia during a period of great Serbian military success, he was remembered by Serbians as King Peter the Liberator and also as the Old King. Peter was the fifth child and third son of Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, and his wife, Persida Nenadović. Prince Alexander was forced to abdicate in 1858, and Peter lived with his family in exile. He fought with the French Foreign Legion in the Franco-Prussian War. He joined as a volunteer under the alias Peter Mrkonjić ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Мркоњић, Petar Mrkonjić) in the Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877) against the Ottoman Empire. In 1883, Prince Peter married Princess Ljubica, daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro. Ljubica became known as Princess Zorka upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Bouly De Lesdain
Jacques Bouly de Lesdain (4 October 1880 - 1975) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and diplomat. He was the author of several travel books about Asia and political books about Germany. He was the political editor of ''L'Illustration'' and he organised anti-Freemasonry conferences during World War II. Early life Jacques Bouly de Lesdain was born on 4 October 1880. He graduated from Sciences Po and received a bachelor's degree in Laws. He was a count. Career Bouly de Lesdain was a lawyer and diplomat. He was the author of books about Mongolia and Tibet, based on his travelling experiences. For example, he had led an expedition in the Gobi Desert in 1902. He also published several books about Germany, including ''La Seconde paix'', a 1931 treatise in which he called for closer Franco-German relations under the pseudonym of "Esdalin". By the 1930s, he joined the Dunkirk chapter of the Action Française. Bouly de Lesdain joined ''L'Illustration'' as a contributor based in Basel, Switz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Louis Pierson
Pierre-Louis Pierson ( Hinckange (Moselle), 13 December 1822 – Paris, 22 March 1913) was a French portrait photographer. His studio was located at 5, boulevard des Capucines, on the border between the 2nd and 9th arrondissements in the centre of Paris. Early life Pierson became interested in photography while the medium was in its infancy in the early 1840s. He had a photography studio in Paris as early as 1844, and enjoyed a solid reputation. For many years, he located his studio at 5, boulevard des Capucines, where he was associated with the Mayer brothers (Léopold-Ernest Mayer and Louis-Frédéric Mayer). At that address, their company grew into a formidable enterprise. Photographer of His Majesty the Emperor Napoléon III Initially using the daguerreotype, the Pierson-Mayer studio became one of the first to specialise in portrait photography retouched with watercolour or oils. The French Emperor Napoléon III came to prefer their studio, particularly once he establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Le Gray
Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray (; 30 August 1820 – 30 July 1884)Le Corre, Florence "Translated from the catalogue ''Une visite au camp de Châlons sous le Second Empire: photographies de Messieurs Le Gray, Prévot...'', Paris: musée de l'Armée, 1996, pp. 130-131." Retrieved September 15, 2008. was a French painter, draughtsman, sculptor, print-maker, and photographer. He has been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical innovations, his instruction of other noted photographers, and "the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making." J. Paul Getty MuseumGustave Le Gray, Photographer. July 9 - September 29, 2002.Retrieved September 14, 2008. He was an important contributor to the development of the wax paper negative. Biography Gustave Le Gray was born on 30 August 1820 in Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d'Oise. He was an only child of a haberdasher. His parents encouraged him to become a solicitor's clerk, but from a you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Hare
James H. Hare (3 October 1856 – 24 June 1946) was an English photojournalist active between 1898 and 1931. He was the leading photographer during five major wars, and was the driving force behind ''Collier's'' becoming a large circulation magazine. Among other conflicts he covered, he photographed the Mexican Revolution (1910-20). Early life Hare was born in London to George Hare, who, after a successful cabinet making business, became a successful camera manufacturer. Hare attended St. John's College in London. He voluntarily left after one year and became an apprentice in his fathers camera shop. In 1879, Hare and his father had a disagreement when he told his father that they should begin making smaller hand-held cameras, which were becoming technologically feasible. Hare left his father's business to work for another London firm. On 2 August that year Hare married Ellen Crapper with whom he had five children. Career During the early 1880s Hare began to lose interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863–1931) was a French photographer who was famous for taking color autochromes during World War I. Life He was born near Fontainebleau in Avon, Seine-et-Marne, south of Paris. He emigrated with his parents in 1874 to Algeria, where they started a family agricultural business that quickly failed. He remained in Algeria for 20 years, developing a passion for the pre-colonial Orient. He spent most of his professional career in search of the exotic. In 1894 he converted to Islam, prior to making a pilgrimage to Mecca.De Pastre, B., and Devos, E. (eds.), Les couleurs du voyage. L'oeuvre photographique de Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (2002) His book ''Mon Voyage a la Mecque'' was published by Hachette in 1896. After experiments with monochrome photography, he adopted the Autochrome Lumière system, which went on sale in June 1907. In 1911, Courtellemont opened the "Palais de l'autochromie" at 167 rue Montmartre in Paris. It comprised an exh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal, Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries. It is a variation of the Greek name ''Andreas'', a short form of any of various compound names derived from ''andr-'' 'man, warrior'. The name is popular in Norway and Sweden. Cognate names Cognate names are: * Bulgarian: Andrei, |
Louis Alphonse De Brébisson
Louis Alphonse de Brébisson (25 September 1798 – 26 April 1888) was a French botanist and photographer born in Falaise, Calvados. In his youth, he was interested in mineralogy and entomology, but his focus soon turned to botany. He is renowned for "''Flore de la Normandie''", a work on vegetation native to Normandy that was published over multiple editions.Sociétés savantes de France biographical information He was the author of several papers on Diatomaceae and , and was possibly the only French scientist researching these algae groups at the time. He also conducted extensive investigations of |
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (2 August 1802 – 28 April 1872) was a French inventor, photographer and photo publisher. Being a cloth merchant by trade, in the 1840s he developed interest in photography and focused on technical and economical issues of mass production of photo prints. Biography He was born and raised in Lille where he studied chemistry with Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann and miniature painting on porcelain.Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography: A-I Volume 1, edited by John Hannavy. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2007, pp. 167–168. After |
Karl Bulla
Carl Oswald Bulla or Karl Karlovich Bulla (; 26 February 1855 in Encyclopedia Peoples.ru or 1853 article on Artproject.ru – 28 November 1929) was a German-Russian photographer, often referred to as the "father of Russian photo-reporting".''Karl Bulla: The Father of Russian Photo-reporting'' "Глаза и уши Петербурга", 2004 Biography Carl Oswald Bulla was born in Leobschütz in Prussia (now Głubczyce, Poland). His exact birth year is unclear with some references citing 1853[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Benoliel
Joshua Benoliel (13 January 1873 – 3 February 1932) was a Portuguese photojournalist. He was the official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal. Biography Joshua Benoliel was born in Lisbon, to Judah Benoliel, a Gibraltar-born Jewish trader, and Esther Levy. Career He started working as a photojournalist for sports magazine '' Tiro e Sport'', in which his first photograph was published, but most of his career was in the Portuguese newspaper '' O Século'' and its supplement '' Ilustração Portuguesa''. He was also the Portuguese correspondent of Spanish newspaper ''ABC'' and French magazine ''L'Illustration''. Benoliel covered the main events in Portuguese history during the early decades of the 20th century, including the downfall of monarchy and the Portuguese participation in World War I in Flanders. Until its overthrow, the Royal Family invited him to be the official photographer on their travels. However, when asked, "are you a royalist or a republican?" he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brada (writer)
Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Countess of Quigini Puliga (24 April 1847 – 5 August 1938) was a French writer and novelist known better by the pseudonym, Brada, a shortened version of her earlier pen name, Bradamente. She also wrote on occasion as Mosca. In 1925, she was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. The Académie Française awarded her the Montyon Prize in 1890, the Jouy Prize in 1895, and the Xavier Marmier Prize in 1934. Early life and education Henrietta (also known as, "Marie") Consuelo Sansom was born 24 April 1847, in Paris. She was the daughter of a wealthy British expatriate, Charles Sansom. Brada spent most of her childhood boarding in a girls' private school located near the Arc de Triomphe. Being born out of wedlock, she found herself destitute upon the death of her father, whose inheritance was shared by his legitimate children. Career In 1868, she married an Italian count twenty years her senior, Efisio Quigini Puliga (1827-1876),''La Formazione del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
