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Title: Composition au chapeau
Date: ca. 1842, printed 1965
Location: France
Photographer: Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887)
Process: gelatin silver print
Note: An early inventor of photography with three processes under his belt, Bayard produced direct positive paper prints as early as 1839. He presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs in June 1839.
Gelatin silver print, No. 7 from the portfolio "Bayard: XXV Calotypes, 1842-1850" (1965); edition 14/50
Source and information: Art Institute Chicago
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