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Philippos Margaritis

Illustration — Filippos Margaritis (date unknown) Filippos Margaritis (1810–1892) is generally acknowledged to have been the first Greek photographer, whose earliest daguerreotypes, of the Acropolis of Athens, date from 1847. Philippos Margaritis was born in Smyrna to a family of Epirote origin, he studied painting and lithography in Paris and subsequently opened a studio in Athens in 1837 and began teaching at the School of Fine Arts in 1842. He learned the techniques of the daguerreotypes from the French photographer François Perraud (not Philibert) who arrived in Greece in 1847, and in turn passed on his knowledge to the students of Athens Polytechnic around 1850.

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Greek General Christodoulos Chatzipetros in the uniform of the "Phalanx", 1855. Photo taken coloured by Filippos Margaritis (1810-1892), the first Greek photographer

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Born
1810 · İzmir.
Died
1892 · Würzburg.
Nationality
Greece
Occupation
photographer · painter
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Philibert Perraud

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Illustration — Filippos Margaritis (date unknown) Filippos Margaritis (1810–1892) is generally acknowledged to have been the first Greek photographer, whose earliest daguerreotypes, of the Acropolis of Athens, date from 1847. Philippos Margaritis was born in Smyrna to a family of Epirote origin, he studied painting and lithography in Paris and subsequently opened a studio in Athens in 1837 and began teaching at the School of Fine Arts in 1842. He learned the techniques of the daguerreotypes from the French photographer François Perraud (not Philibert) who arrived in Greece in 1847, and in turn passed on his knowledge to the students of Athens Polytechnic around 1850.

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