Daguerreotype: BE_PRI_HEM506_4

Collection: Private collection, Belgium VI i
Language: English
Type: Other
Deeplink: http://daguerreobase.org/en/type/7b19c75d-bd9c-9dc1-e466-45040b608e65

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Identification

BE_PRI_HEM506_4

Title

Gelot-Sandoz

Image description

photographer label of Mme Gelot-Sandoz, a Paris, France

Subject name

Gelot-Sandoz

Inscription

Portraits Photogéniques à l'ombre par tous les temps. Par Mme. Gelot-Sandoz Boulevars Poisonnière, 2. Paris.

Keyword technique

print on paper

links

Stereo plates

Collection

Creator

Name: Gelot - Sandoz, Mlle
notes: First woman to own her own commercial photography studio in Paris. Madame Gelot-Sandoz was one of the few early women daguerreotypists with a professional studio in Paris. She is listed as early as 1844 in a trade yearbook as one of only 12 photographers in Paris. Little is known about her. She advertised that she took "PORTRAITS PHOTOGÉNIQUES" in the shade, in all types of weather, so she must have adopted to the newest techniques at that early date. In the early forties, Sandoz had two addresses for her studio in Paris. The first one was (from 1843) 11 rue de Mulhouse and the second one opened about a year later at Boulevard Poissonnière 2. Her work is in the collection of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce; Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library;and the Musée Français de la Photographie in Bièvres. Her work was exhibited in 2015 at the Musée de l'Orangerie in the exhibition by Thomas Galifot "Who Is Afraid of Women Photographers?”

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