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Introduction

Image and Enterprise

The Photographs of Adolphe Braun
February 4 - April 22, 2000

Adolphe Braun (1812-1877) was an entrepreneur who recognized the possibilities of the new process of photography. Trained to provide designs for textile manufacture in the city of Mulhouse in eastern France, he launched a second career in the 1850s as a photographer. Over the following decades, Braun's enterprise was fueled by ambition, business sense, and skillful use of technical developments.

His company became a leader in creating photographs for a wide audience. Braun and his team of photographers produced works for both a popular and a fine-arts market. Their images embody the deepest historical trends of the time in commerce, industry, culture, and politics. They also reveal the way in which an emerging medium offered an international public new ways of understanding their rapidly changing world.

Selected Objects

French, Sevres

Cup and Saucer, 1800s
No Image Available

French, Sevres

Demitasse cup and saucer, 1800s

American

Untitled, 1800s
No Image Available

American

Untitled, 1800s

John Thomson

Street Doctor, 1877

Adolphe Braun

Alpine Lake, ca. 1858-1866

Adolphe Braun

Man with Ox, ca. 1862-1864

Adolphe Braun

Le Staubbach, Vallée de Lauterbrunnen, ca. 1866

Adolphe Braun

No. 1063. Cascade inferieure de Barbarine., ca. 1860

Adolphe Braun

No. 3077. Route du St.-Gotthardt. Gorge de Schoellenen., 1860 - 1870

David Octavius Hill

Elizabeth Rigby (Lady Eastlake), ca. 1845

Adolphe Braun

No. 699. Route du St. Gotthard. Pont du Diable., ca. 1875

Adolphe Braun

No. 4729. Canton d'Uri. Hospenthal., ca. 1860
No Image Available

American, Rhode Island Possibly Providence

Folio cabinet, ca. 1880

Charles Émile Jacque

Sheep at Rest, 1800s

Probably Zuber & Cie, manufacturer

Wallpaper border, late 1700s-early 1800s

Adolphe Braun

Fruit Tree Blossoms, ca. 1854

Gustave de Beaucorps

Algerian Street Scene, ca. 1858-1860
No Image Available

Claude-Hilaire-Alphonse Chamouin

Collection de 26 vues de Paris prises au daguerreotype, ca. 1852

Adolphe Braun

Zermatt-Schwarzsee Region: Gorner and Breithorn Glacier, ca. 1875

Raffaello Morghen, designer

La Madonna della Sedia, 1793

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Exhibition Checklist

Image and Enterprise : The Photographs of Adolphe Braun

February 4 - April 22, 2000
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