Louis Lafon was a French photographer active between the 1870s and 1890s. He is noted for having photographed industrial scenes as well as landscapes involving man-made artifacts.
Louis Lafon was a French photographer active between the 1870s and 1890s. He is noted for having photographed industrial scenes as well as landscapes involving man-made artifacts.
Work
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has written about Lafon, “He was based in Paris, photographed primarily industrial subjects, and won a medal for his submissions to the 1874 exhibition of the Société Française de Photographie.”
Lafon used the albumen print technique which produces a glossy surface on the images.
Lafon created a large scale (by 19th c. standards) photograph (now in the collection of Princeton University Library) of a high-speed printing press fabricated by Hippolyte Marinoni (Presse Universelle). The press revolutionized the mechanical reproduction industry.
