From these negatives, he made contact prints. He used wet and dry paper negatives as large as 10x14 inches in size. One of his greatest assignments was to document the construction of the Louvre museum.
He created a moving record of the flood without explicitly depicting the human suffering left in its wake.īaldus was well known throughout France for his efforts in photography. In 1856, he set out on a brief assignment to photograph the destruction caused by torrential rains and overflowing rivers in Lyon, Avignon, and Tarascon. The lavishly bound album is still among the treasures of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
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In 1855, Baron James de Rothschild, President of Chemin de Fer du Nord, commissioned Baldus to do a series of photographs to be used as part of an album that was to be a gift to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a souvenir of their visit to France that year. The high quality of his work won him government support for a project entitled Les Villes de France Photographiées, an extended series of architectural views in Paris and the provinces designed to feed a resurgent interest in the nation's Roman and medieval past. In 1851, he was commissioned for the Missions Héliographiques by the Historic Monuments Commission of France to photograph historic buildings, bridges and monuments, many of which were being razed to make way for the grand boulevards of Paris, being carried out under the direction of Napoleon III's prefect Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann. He was originally trained as a painter and had also worked as a draughtsman and lithographer before switching to photography in 1849. Édouard-Denis Baldus was born on Jin Grünebach, Prussia.
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