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Adolphe Braun, Fruit Tree Blossoms. Mary B. Jackson Fund

Image and Enterprise

The Photographs of Adolphe Braun
February 4 - April 22, 2000
Adolphe Braun, Fruit Tree Blossoms. Mary B. Jackson Fund

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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.

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Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun

In essays and beautiful color images, this RISD Museum publication explores the life and influence of artist-entrepreneur Adolphe Braun (1812-1877). Braun was the first photographer to lead campaigns of art and nature documentation in the early years of photography with aims to produce work not only commercial but useful, comprehensive, and beautiful. Braun's endeavor brought into common circulation images of nature and wonders of art from around the world.

Image and Enterprise : The Photographs of Adolphe Braun

February 4 - April 22, 2000
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