Rue Cambon
1846, printed 1965
Medium
Gelatin silver print, No. 16 from the portfolio "Bayard: XXV Calotypes, 1842-1850" (1965)
Dimensions
Image/paper/mount: 22.6 × 17.2 cm (8 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
photographic process
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23793
Art Historical Context
Step into the bustling streets of 1840s Paris with *Rue Cambon*, a captivating calotype by pioneering photographer Hippolyte Bayard, captured in 1846. Bayard, a French civil servant turned innovator, was a key figure in photography's infancy, rivaling contemporaries like Daguerre and Talbot. This image, part of the rare 1965 portfolio *Bayard: XXV Calotypes, 1842-1850*, offers a glimpse of everyday urban life on Rue Cambon, a fashionable thoroughfare near the Tuileries Garden, frozen in time through his experimental lens. Printed as a modern gelatin silver print (22.6 × 17.2 cm), it reproduce...
About the Artist
Hippolyte Bayard · 1801–1887
Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) was a French civil servant and artist who holds a remarkable, if bittersweet, place in the history of photography: he was one of the independent inventors of the photographic process in the late 1830s, developing his own direct positive paper print method at virtually the same moment that Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot were arriving at their own solutions ...