Artist: Henri Jean-louis Le Secq (1818 - 1882)
Nationality:French
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Henri Le Secq was the son of a politician who became a painter, antiquarian, and collector of Master prints and medieval ironwork. He learned photography from his friend Gustave Le Gray and began photographing figures for preparatory studies. He began photographing the architecture in Paris, the work for which he is recognized. In 1851, he was a founding member of the Societe heliographique. He was chosen by the Commission des Monuments Historiques in 1852 to document the Chartres Cathedral as a part of the missions heliographiques project. He stopped photographing after 1856 when paper negatives went out of fashion.

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