Pont de la Corvette "Le Sérieux"
Paul-Emile Miot French, born West Indies
Printer Furne fils and Tournier French
Not on view
Paul-Émile Miot spent nearly twenty-five years as a military and merchant seaman, traveling the globe to locations as diverse as the Crimea, Senegal, Madagascar, Cape Horn, San Francisco, and Tahiti. This photograph, made on his first excursion to
the cod- fishing areas of Newfoundland in 1857, is among the earliest in his decade-and-a-half of photographic activity. Handsomely printed by Furne Fils and Tournier at Lermercier's in Paris, Miot's photographs of his naval peregrinations eloquently fulfill one of the earliest uses envisioned for the medium: providing the armchair tourist with the vicarious experience of travel.
