Louis Dodero
Louis Dodero (6 September 1824 – 18 December 1902) was a French photographer from Marseilles. He is credited with inventing the carte de visite in 1851. However, another photographer, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patented this type of photograph on November 27, 1854.
Louis Dodero
- Name
- Louis Dodero
- Birthplace
- Genoa, Duchy of Genoa
- Born
- 6 September 1824
- Died
- 18 December 1902
- Place of death
- Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Louis Dodero (6 September 1824 – 18 December 1902) was a French photographer from Marseilles. He is credited with inventing the carte de visite in 1851. However, another photographer, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patented this type of photograph on November 27, 1854.
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• Name — Louis Dodero • Birthplace — Genoa, Duchy of Genoa • Born — 6 September 1824 • Died — 18 December 1902 • Place of death — Six-Fours-les-Plages, France • Occupation — Photographer
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1824
Louis Dodero was born in 1824 at Genoa.
1902
Louis Dodero died in 1902 at Six-Fours-les-Plages.
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- 1.Archives des Bouches-du-Rhône, commune de Marseille, acte de mariage , année 1857 (consulté le 25 novembre 2014)
- 2.Archives du Var, commune de Six-Fours-les-Plages, acte de décès , année 1902 (page 274/279)
- 3.CARTE-DE-VISITE photography, in Leggat Robert, A History of Photography, from its beginnings till the 1920s, 1995. Page vue le 8 juin 2009.
- 4.Sagne J. (1984), p. 57.
- 5.Sagne J. (1984), p. 164.
- 6.La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, Best of des enchères - Photographie, paragraphe « Une vision de la mort ». Page vue le 8 juin 2009.
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- Jean Sagne, L'atelier du photographe (1840-1940), Collection Histoire des hommes, Presses de la Renaissance, 1984 .
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