Ernest Eleanor Pierre Lamy

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Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy, (born December 9, 1828 in Triel-sur-Seine , † July 5, 1900 in Courbevoie ) was a French photographer, photographic paper manufacturer and inventor.

Life

Triel-sur-Seine 1828 can be determined as the year and place of birth using the birth register. In the literature, other life dates often incorrectly occur which can be traced back to identical names. Hardly anything can be found out about his career. His first secure studio was at Rue d'Enghien 24 in Paris , where he first appeared as a manufacturer of “Epreuves stereoscopique” ( stereoscopic prints or pictures) around 1863/64 . The collection of the Département des Estampes et de la Photographie de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris and its entry register recorded two series of stereo views of Lamy as an entry as early as 1861: "Residences imperiales (!)" And "Etudes de femmes à demi -nues ". This means that Lamy had already started producing anonymously stereoscopic recordings on a larger scale at least two years earlier.

Its first mention in the Annuaire coincides almost exactly with the creation of the first major landscape series in which Lamy claimed to be the author - the series "Espagne". It is certain that Lamy was in Spain in the summer of 1863 and produced this series consisting of 114 views. In the following year, 1864, he handed over these recordings together with the series “Paris instantané” and “Camp de Chalons”, which must have been taken at the time of the series from Spain, but in contrast to the series Espagne does not show any authorship on the cardboard. the BNF. In the years that followed, a number of other series appeared up to around 1873, such as: “Marines”, “Vues d'Auvergne”, “Vues des Pyrénées”, “La Suisse et la Savoie”, “Vues d'Italie”, “Lago Maggiore” "And" Alpes Italiennes "," Tyrol "," Residences Imperiales ".

Around 1868 Lamy moved to rue Clichy 44 (until 1875), his last studio was located at rue de Turbigo 38 until 1878. In that year Lamy seems to have sold everything to Ernest Lize and thus ended his photographic activity.

On November 24, 1870, he married Marguerite Jeanne Francoise Lamotte. But Lamy had not completely renounced photography. He continued to work in photography, albeit now as a successful manufacturer and developer. For example, he developed his own actinometer to measure light intensity and built his own factory in Courbevoie to produce photo paper . He also filed patents for his own rapid development processes. He is considered to be one of the first manufacturers to specialize in photo paper, whose papers were exported across Europe. In 1873 Lamy made another trip to Vienna for the world exhibition. He was won by the Vienna Photographers Association for the specialty stereoscopy " as a man who enjoys a European reputation ". After his studio was sold to Lize, two of his series were reissued in 1878 and 1882, namely those with views of Paris and the surrounding area and those of Switzerland and Savoy. In this new edition it was also precisely stated that the recordings themselves came from Lamy and were distributed by Lize as the legal successor. The views of Paris have been renumbered, those of Switzerland seem to have retained their numbering and order.

Lamy died on July 5, 1900 in Courbevoie. What happened afterwards to Lamy's extensive work is unknown.

Fonts

  • Guano, Alexander: French and English Travel Photographers in Tyrol before 1870. The example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy. The Photohistorian no. 180 / Spring 2018. pp. 5–11
  • Guano, Alexander: French and English travel photographers in Tyrol before 1870: the example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy. In: Schlern. Volume 91, Issue 3 (2017), pages 4–13
  • Rivero, Juan Antonia Fernandez: Los fotógrafos Lamy y Andrieu, in: Carlos S. Gomez (ed.): Una imagen de Espana. Fotografos esteroscopistas franceses (1856–1867) , Madrid 2011, pp. 81–87.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guano, Alexander: French and English Travel Photographers in Tyrol before 1870. The example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy p. 11
  2. ↑ Guano, Alexander: French and English travel photographers in Tyrol before 1870: the example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy. P. 2
  3. ↑ The name is wrongly derived from Pellerin. In reality it has to be another series. The "Residences Imperiales" series was only created later, in 1868. Denis Pellerin: La photographie stéréoscopique sous le second empire, Paris 1995, p. 108. Joseph Hermann (Red.): Published news of the Austrian art trade, in: Austrian bookseller correspondenz. Vienna 10th year, No. 6, 1869, p. 46.
  4. ↑ Rivero, Juan Antonia Fernandez: Los fotógrafos Lamy y Andrieu, in: Carlos S. Gomez (ed.): Una imagen de Espana. Fotografos esteroscopistas franceses (1856-1867) , Madrid 2011, pp. 81–87.
  5. ↑ List compiled on the basis of the collections of the: BNF Département des Estampes et de la photographie, collection of the Rijksmuseum and the Albertina. This list does not claim to be complete.
  6. ↑ Gomez (note 4), p. 176. At the Paris World Exhibition in 1878 , Lamy was already exhibiting as a paper manufacturer and Lize was appearing as a photographer at 38 Rue de Turbigo.
  7. ^ Guano, Alexander: French and English Travel Photographers in Tyrol before 1870. The example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy p. 11
  8. ↑ Guano, Alexander: French and English travel photographers in Tyrol before 1870: the example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy. P. 10
  9. ↑ So also in Austria. Friedrich Uhl (Red.): Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung, in: Wiener Zeitung , 2nd vol., No. 243, 1882, p. 1.
  10. ↑ C. Fabre: Aide-mémoire de photographie, publié sous les auspices de la Société photographique de Toulouse. Toulouse 1901, p. 79.
  11. ↑ Carl Cikanek (ed.): Wiener Weltausstellung-Zeitung, 3rd vol., No. 146, 1873, p. 3.
  12. ^ Guano, Alexander: French and English Travel Photographers in Tyrol before 1870. The example of Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Lamy, Ernest Eleonor Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamy, Ernest Eleonor Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer, photographic paper maker and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Triel sur Seine
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1900
Place of death Courbevoie