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Etienne Carjat

Identity:

Etienne Carjat was a photographer, caricaturist, designer, journalist and writer.

Life:

Carjat trained as an industrial designer, but then turned at the age of twenty six to caricature.

He was a lover of the theatre and in 1854 published a series of lithographs entitled Le Théâtre à la ville. In 1858 he became apprenticed to the photographer Pierre Petit and then in 1860 opened his own photography studio at 56 rue Laffitte, which he operated for 20 years.

Carjat received a medal for his photographs in the Salon of 1863.

A number of journals and newspapers were founded by Carjat, including the illustrated weekly paper Le Boulevard in 1861, which ceased publication in 1864, but nevertheless established his literary reputation.

Carjat famously photographed many artistic, literary and political figures, including Gioacchino Rossini, Emile Zola, Charles Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Charles Deburau, Gustave Courbet and Victor Hugo.

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