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Article: Mois de la photo.(various photographers, various galleries, Paris, France)
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- March 1, 1999
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Some of the first sights photography presented to the world were the rooftops and streets of Paris, wondrously captured in the early works of both its French and English inventors, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot. However, in contrast to the early English tendency to sequestrate photographic practice within an elite circle of amateurs, France and the French government were in the vanguard of exploiting photography's commercial possibilities. Modernity and photography were inseparably allied in Paris, as the state sponsored missions to document the past and present of the city-in-transition and portrait studios took up residence on Baron ...
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