1. One of several early photographers who learned the practice from Gustave Le Gray, Aguado pioneered a number of photographic processes, including carte de visite photographs and photographic enlargement processes.
11 Facts About Olympe Aguado
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Olympe Aguado was a founding member of the influential French Photographic Society in 1854.
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Olympe Aguado was born in Paris in 1827, the second son of the 1st Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir and Maria de Carmen Vidoire Moreno.
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Olympe Aguado's father had been a supporter of Joseph Bonaparte during the Peninsular War.
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Olympe Aguado was a member of the early French photographic organization, the Societe heliographique, in the early 1850s.
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Olympe Aguado frequently served as a judge for the Society's exhibitions during the 1850s and 1860s.
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Olympe Aguado was a frequent figure at the court of Emperor Napoleon III, and photographed both the emperor and his wife, Eugenie.
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Olympe Aguado's younger brother, Onesipe, was a photographer, and the two collaborated on a number of projects.
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Olympe Aguado had a penchant for experimenting with new photographic processes, and thus produced photographs using numerous different mediums.
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Salt paper prints by Olympe Aguado include Still Life with Garden Equipment and Study of Trees, Bois de Boulogne.
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Olympe Aguado initially preferred collodion on glass for portraits, but later switched to albumen prints.