Foreign stereographers / publishers - Jean Laurent

Jean Laurent was born in Garchizy, France, in 1816, and died in the late 1880s or early 1890s [Badía-Villaseca 2003]. He moved to Spain in the 1840s and opened his studio in Madrid on 1856. Laurent and his company's photographers produced over 11,000 negatives and commercialised images in many formats. Stereoscopic images were no exception, and Darrah refers to a beautiful series issued about Spain and Portugal [Darrah 1997, p. 125]. The images appear to have been taken with a single lens camera, which becomes readily noticeable in many of them (such as in the two examples below).

Two types of card mounts are known (at least some of the images were mounted in both types), as follows:

 
  Light blue flat card mount with square-corner images. Blind stamp vertically on the right side saying "J. Laurent" (no image number or caption).
   
 
  Blue flat card mount with square-corner images. Printed vertically on the left side: "VUES, MUSÉES et COSTUMES D'ESPAGNE et DU PORTUGAL - J. Laurent et C.ie 39, Car.a S. Geronimo, MADRID - 90, Rue Richelieu, PARIS". Captions at the bottom of the left image.

Further reading:

[Darrah 1997]
William C. Darrah, The World of Stereographs, Land Yacht Press, 246 p., 1997 (second edition of the book originally published in 1977), ISBN 0-9650513-1-5.

[Badía-Villaseca 2003]
Sara Badía-Villaseca, Jean Laurent's Nineteenth-Century Spain, Early Works from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography of the University of Arizona, http://www.arts.arizona.edu/laurent/indexen.htm (visited on June 10th, 2003 - see the entry page here, if the original is not available).

(see the views)

 

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