Photography

Albert Lévy (photographer)

Albert Levy (1847–1931) was a French photographer active in Europe and the United States. Mostly active in the 1870s and 1890s in the United States, returning to France in 1896, he was a pioneer on architectural photography. He developed a catalogue with 2500 titles that is available through the Gallica web project of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) as well as in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. His catalogue covers France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States. He was one of the first photographers to have studios on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean: in Paris and New York. His main contribution to history documentation was his "Albert Levy's architectural photographic Series" in the 1870s that consists of albums with 30–40 albumen prints of the Architecture of the United States, with a size of 20x24 cm approximately. There are at least 36 series.

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• ▸Costermonger
• ▸Arctic Cape
• ▸Jo-Anne McArthur

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