Pierre Petit (photographer)
Pierre Lanith Petit (Aups 15 August 1832 – 16 February 1909 Paris) was a French photographer. He is sometimes credited as Pierre Lamy Petit.
Petit learned photography in Paris in the workshop of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889) (together with 76 other employees). In 1858, he opened his own workshop in Paris with Antoine René Trinquart, later to be called La Photographie des Deux Mondes. This proved to be very successful and workshops were opened in Baden-Baden and Marseille (in partnership with Emile Cazalis).
In his lifetime he made thousands of photographs. In 1908 he handed over the business to his son.
Some highlights in Petit's career:
Museums that hold large collections of his photographs:
Camille Saint-Saëns (1900)
Hector Berlioz (1863)
The foundation for the Eiffel Tower (1887)
Kalina woman with child (1882)
Exhumation of the remains from Gioachino Rossini. Wood-engraving based on one of his photographs (1887)
Websites showing photographs by Pierre Petit
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