Village de Gèdres, Route de Gavarnie

Joseph Vigier French

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In the summer of 1853, Viscount Vigier spent two months photographing in the Pyrenees. He had learned the waxed paper process from Gustave Le Gray but preferred Talbot's original technique for its strong contrasts of light and dark. When Vigier exhibited his views in London and Paris in l854, they were highly acclaimed. These first photographs of the Pyrenees appealed to the English taste for the sublime and to the French romantic temperament.

Village de Gèdres, Route de Gavarnie, Joseph Vigier (French, 1821–1862), Salted paper print from paper negative

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