About This Image

A wooden camera that was used by the photographer Henri Le Secq and coming from his family with an invoice for it made out to Le Secq. It is 24 x 30 cm and has vertical and horizontal lifts and swings, a black bellows, and a ground glass with the photographer's handwritten pencil formats from 9 x 12 to 24 x 30 cm. The camera is missing the lens. There are two camera backs marked "Gilles Brothers" 24 x 30 cm and numbered in their carrying case. Also comes with a printing frame 38 x 28.5 cm. The group includes an invoice to M. Le Secq from the "Gilles Brothers" dated July 17, 1871. Provenance: the photographer's family; Jakobowicz & Associés Auction (2011).Henri Le Secq was one of the most important early photographer's of the 19th-century. He was one of only five photographers chosen by the French government to be a part of the groundbreaking Mission Heliographique project of 1851-52, considered the first government sponsored documentary photography project.

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