Alexis Gouin (-1855)

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Name (English)
Alexis Gouin
Short name
Alexis Louis Charles Arthur Gouin
Year of death
1855
Short Description
"Gouin was born in New York at the end of the 18th century. Pupil of Regnault and Girodet, he was one of the first photographers to use the daguerreotype process. Working with his wife and daughter, who hand-colored his negatives, from 1849 (date of his inscription in the parisian business register) he met Bruno Braquehais towards 1851 and invited him to join his studio (until 1852). From this time to this death in 1855 Gouin devised a photometer and a machine polishing daguerreotype plates. He get a honourable mention at the London Exhibition and portrayed, among others Alexandre Dumas, Camille Saint-Saens and James Pradier. With the stereoscopic daguerreotype process, he made series of female nudes. His contemporaries praised his photographs for their subtility and quality so that he was called "The French Claudet." His daughter married Braquehais in 1856 and the Braquehais-Gouin's firm produced colours and images during a decade." - John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, New York 2008, S. 600
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