Warren T. Thompson
Thompson (active 1840–1870) was an American photographer. Between 1840 and 1846 Thompson worked in Philadelphia and in 1843 refined Daniel Davis Jr.'s electroplating method for colouring daguerreotypes by using a gum tragacanth resist. According to an article in the 1892 American Journal of Photography by editor Julius Sachse, Thompson traveled to Paris in 1845 from New York without speaking any French and with an introduction from the Russian Consul in New York to the Russian Vice-Consul in Paris who in turn arranged an introduction to Russian photographer Sergei Lvovich Levitsky.
Warren T. Thompson
Warren T. Thompson · Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry. Warren t. Thompson The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum (англ.). — Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998. — P. 93. — · Public domain
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Thompson (active 1840–1870) was an American photographer. Between 1840 and 1846 Thompson worked in Philadelphia and in 1843 refined Daniel Davis Jr.'s electroplating method for colouring daguerreotypes by using a gum tragacanth resist. According to an article in the 1892 American Journal of Photography by editor Julius Sachse, Thompson traveled to Paris in 1845 from New York without speaking any French and with an introduction from the Russian Consul in New York to the Russian Vice-Consul in Paris who in turn arranged an introduction to Russian photographer Sergei Lvovich Levitsky.
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Levitsky is quoted by Sachse as declaring Thompson's daguerreotypes were 'works of art'. Sachse further claims that Thompson influenced for the development of portrait daguerreotypes in Paris. From 1849-50 Thompson was listed as a photographer at 14 boulevard Poissonnière, rue Basse-du-Rempart in 1851, then 22 rue de Choiseul from 1853-59. Levitsky returned to Russia by 1849 but came back to Paris by 1859 where he took over Thompson's Choiseul address. This was also the premises for the French arts club. Thompson (a.k.a. surname 'Warren-Thompson') produced daguerreotypes in Paris as well as very fine stereo daguerreotypes and a number of theatrical self-portraits some of very large size, but his body of known work is scant. The skill of his surviving work suggests he may have trained as a painter. For a pioneer era photographer whose role appears to have been quite prominent in Paris in the 1840s and 50s, Thompson's career is poorly known.
Work by Warren T. Thompson is recorded in the collections of J. Paul Getty Museum.
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- 1.Généalogie d'Elijah Warren Thompson (avec sources). FamilySearch.
- 2.Portraits au daguerréotype. Le Courrier du Gard. 4. 1847-12-17.
- 3.Portraits au daguerréotype. Gazette du Bas-Languedoc. 4. 1847-12-19.
- 4.Daguerréotype. La Presse. 4. 1850-04-26.
- 5.Article fr Laure Boyer Robert J. Bingham, photographe du monde de l’art sous le Second Empire Études photographiques 12 novembre 2002 note 10 lire en http://journals.openedition.org/etudesphotographiques/320 accès libre .
- 6.Livret de l'exposition nationale des produits de l'agriculture et de l'industrie : 1849. 1849.
- 7.Le Palais de l'industrie universelle : ouvrage descriptif ou analytique des produits les plus remarquables de l'exposition de 1855. 1855.
- 8.Révolver photographique inventé par , présenté par. Cosmos. 465. 1862-10-24.
- 9.English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1863, 2211 - 2286. H.M. Stationery Office. 1864.
- 10.Liste des exposants de la classe 64. La Propagation industrielle. 291. 1865-04-01.
- 11.Specifications of Inventions.: Record 1: 1617-1875. Patent Office. 1870.
- 12.Croydon Times, 26 janvier 1901, (disponible sur British Newspaper Archive). L'annonce nécrologique indique : ( ).
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