Alfred Saint Ange Briquet, Mexico, Ferro-Carril, Estacion de Dos Rios

Alfred Saint Ange Briquet, Mexico, Ferro-Carril, Estacion de Dos Rios

vintage albumen print



Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet (30 December 1833, Paris – 1926, Mexico) was a French pioneer of photography, particularly in Mexico.



Briquet became a photographer in Paris in 1854. He taught photography at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the prominent French military academy. In 1876, he receive a commission to record the construction of the Mexican National Railway (Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano - FNM) line being built between Veracruz and Mexico City. He gained the attention of President Porfirio Díaz and secured a number of commissions. He also published a series of photography books: Vistas Mexicanas, Tipos Mexicanos and Antiquedades Mexicanos. Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910 he no longer received any government contracts.

Tirage albuminé

24,5x32,5

Circa 1885