Frederic Martens

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Frederic Martens or Friedrich von Martens (Venice, 1806 - † Paris, 1885) was engraver and photographer.

As much of artists (engravers, draftsmen, painters) of the time, it is interested in 1840 in new rise of the Photographie, initially by the means of the Daguerréotype, then the first negative ones with the Collodion. It presents to the World Fair of London in 1851 a panoramic drawing of the Mont Blanc makes starting from fourteen photographic tests. It develops in 1845 a room with opening to 150 panoramic degrees to carry out taken of sight. It thus delivers Daguerréotypes of the Seine, taken since the workshop of Lerebours place of the new Bridge, 40 cm length and of an incredible smoothness. In 1855 it as affirms to have discovered to him the process of the albuminous Collodion at the same time as Jean-Marie Taupenot. It also marks the history of photography by carrying out famous pullings of the 29 stereotypes chosen by Jean-Charles Langlois and Leon-Eugene Méhédin on their return of the Crimean War. The Langlois painter, accompanied by the young photographer raises Gray, had been charged to join together the elements necessary to a panorama on the Seat of Sébastopol in 1855. Martens is then specialist in the catches of sights panoramic and photographer of the cabinet of the emperor. Its pullings were offered to the marshal Pélissier, general-in-chief of the Armée with the East, and to same with the emperor Napoleon III.

See too

the daguerreotype and the activity of the Parisian workshops of the daguerréotypie
Seen panoramic of Martens on HTTP: /expositions.bnf.fr/universelles/grand/001.htm site of the BNF

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