Gabriel Cromer

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Gabriel Cromer (tombstone on the Cimetière de Montrouge in Paris)
Louis Daguerre , 1844, photo by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot from the Gabriel Cromers collection.

Gabriel Cromer (* 1873 ; † 1934 ) was a French photographer and collector.

Life

Gabriel Cromer initially studied law, but soon turned to photography . He ran a studio in Clamart and earned a reputation as a master of portrait photography using carbon printing . In 1912 he became a member of the French photography association Société française de photographie , in 1927 he became the society's librarian. He became famous as a collector. He focused on France and documented the history of photography since the days of Louis Daguerre . His collection comprised five hundred early, mostly French, daguerreotypes , a total of around 6000 photographs, including works by Le Gray , Le Secq , Disdéri and Adolphe Braun ; in addition, an extensive library of specialist literature and rare photographic equipment, such as a daguerreotype camera from the manufacturer Giroux . The numerous special features from the early days of photography included a photo of Daguerre by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot, a study made by Daguerre for a diorama picture, and a plate signed by him.

In 1939, five years after Gabriel Cromer's death, his widow sold the collection to the Eastman Kodak Company for 500,000 francs ($ 13,000). The Cromer Collection was then donated to the museum in George Eastman House, founded in 1949 . There it formed the basis of the photographic collection and "determines the tenor, quality and breadth of the institution."

See also

literature

  • Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection, History of Photography . Taschen, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8228-4775-6 .
  • Walter Clark: The Cromer Collection at Eastman House in French Daguerreotypes . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 21 .
  2. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 22 .
  3. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 8 .

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Commons : Gabriel Cromer  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Cromer, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer and collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
DATE OF DEATH 1934