Antoine Claudet
Antoine François Jean Claudet (August 18, 1797 – December 27, 1867) was a French photographer and artist active in London who produced daguerreotypes.
Early years
Claudet was born in La Croix-Rousse, France, the son of Claude Claudet, a cloth merchant and Etiennette Julie Montagnat.[1][2]
Career
Early in his career Claudet headed a glass factory at
He invented the red darkroom safelight, and it was he who suggested the idea of using a series of photographs to create the illusion of movement. The idea of using painted backdrops has also been attributed to him.
From 1841 to 1851 he operated a studio on the roof of the
It has been estimated that he made 1,800 pictures every year with subjects including Michael Faraday and Charles Babbage.[5] His daguerreotype of Hemi Pomara, in the National Library of Australia, is the oldest known photograph of any Māori person.[6][7]
In 1848 he produced the
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1853, and in 1858 he produced the stereomonoscope, in reply to a challenge from Sir David Brewster.[3]
Claudet received many honours, among which was the appointment, in 1853, as "Photographer-in-ordinary" to
Family and death
Antoine and Julia Claudet had eight children, the youngest of whom was Francis George Claudet (1837–1906) who became a noted amateur photographer in Canada.[9]
Antoine Claudet died in London in 1867 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Less than a month after his death, his "Temple to photography" was burnt down, and most of his valuable photographs were lost.[10]
References
- ^ http://authorities.loc.gov/webvoy.htm Anglo-American Name Authority File, s.v. "Claudet, A.", LC Control Number nr 88000067, cited 10 February 2006
- ^ http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Claudet%2C+Antoine&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500024177 Union List of Artists Names, s.v. "Claudet, Antoine", cited 10 February 2006
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Claudet, Antoine François Jean". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 463. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ISSN 1755-1560.
- ^ "Only known photographs of Ada Lovelace in Bodleian Display". Bodleian Libraries blog. 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ deCourcy, Elisa; Jolly, Martyn (1 July 2020). "How we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Māori person". The Spinoff. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ Roy, Eleanor Ainge (30 June 2020). "Oldest surviving photograph of Māori discovered in Australia". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ Brothers, A. (1899). Photography: Its History, Processes, Apparatus, and Materials: Comprising Working Details of All the More Important Methods. C. Griffin, limited. p. 225. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
- ISBN 9781135873271. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- ^ A brief biography of Antoine Claudet. cartage.org.lb.