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Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, albumen silver print from wet-collodion glass negative by Gustave Le Gray, c. 1856; in the Art Institute of Chicago. Gustave Le Gray, Old Oak Tree, John James Audubon, Classic Image, French Photographers, Tree Forest, Historical Pictures, Art Institute Of Chicago, Historical Maps

Gustave Le Gray, in full Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Le Gray, (born August 30, 1820, Villiers-le-Bel, France—died July 30, 1884, Cairo, Egypt), French artist noted for his promotion and aesthetic handling of the paper negative in France. Le Gray, a former student of the painter Paul Delaroche, began to experiment with photography in 1847. He was among the first of the French painters to recognize the aesthetic potentials of the calotype. This process involved the use of paper for the negative…

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