History of Art: History of Photography


	History of Photography Introduction. History of Photography (Encyclopaedia Britannica) A World History of Photography (by Naomi Rosenblum) The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991 (by Hans-Michael Koetzle) Photographers' Dictionary. (based on "20th Century Photography - Museum Ludwig Cologne")


	Photographers' Dictionary (based on "20th Century Photography-Museum Ludwig Cologne")

Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822-1913)

In 1844 Pierre-Louis Pierson began operating a studio in Paris that specialized in hand-colored daguerreotypes. In 1855 he entered into a partnership with Léopold Ernest and Louis Frederic Mayer, who also ran a daguerreotype studio. The Mayers had been named "Photographers of His Majesty the Emperor" by Napoleon III the year before Pierson joined them. Although the studios remained at separate addresses, Pierson and the Mayers began to distribute their images under the joint title "Mayer et Pierson," and together they became the leading society photographers in Paris.
Pierson's 1861 photographs of the family and court of Napoleon III sold very well to the public. Pierson and Leopold Mayer soon opened another studio in Brussels, Belgium, and began photographing other European royalty. After Mayer's retirement in 1878, Pierson went into business with his son-in-law Gaston Braun, whose father was the photographer Adolphe Braun.