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Gustave Le Gray
Harbour
Scene, 1854
Artist's
Biography
Trained as a painter under Paul Delaroche, Gustave
Le Gray made his mark in the emerging medium of
photography. An experimenter and technical innovator,
Le Gray pioneered the use of the paper negative
in France and developed a waxed-paper negative that
produced sharper-focus prints. In 1851 he began
to use collodion on glass negatives, which further
increased the clarity of his images. He became one
of the first five photographers, along with Édouard-Denis
Baldus and Hippolyte Bayard, to work for the missions
héliographique,
a government-sponsored commission to document the
state of repair of important French monuments and
buildings. He was also a founding member of the
Société Héliographique, the
first photographic organization in the world. In
the early 1860s he toured the Mediterranean with
Alexandre Dumas. He spent his last years in Lebanon
and finally Egypt, where he became a professor of
drawing and where he died, in 1884.
Gustave
Le Gray
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