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E. ESTANAVE
Lippmann process photographs, circa 1908-1932
Twenty-two plates including five colour plates, six 9½ x 7 1/8 in., twelve approx. 7 x 5¼ in. (six damaged), and four from 4 x 3 3/8 in. to 5 x 5 1/8 in. (one damaged), the majority paper-taped, several signed Estanave, dated and with occasional titles and/or inscriptions in the plate or on paper-tape, three mounted in card passe-partouts, one with printed credit Relief à Vision Directe Brevets E. Estanave. Photographies Animées on mount, in card boxes; a photographic postcard of Estanave at his desk; with Relief Photographique A Vision Directe Photographies animées by E. Estanave, Seine: F. Meiller, 1930., 8vo. (24)
Literature
Eder, History of Photography, pp. 668-69; Sougez, La Photographie son histoire, p.165; Estanave, Relief Photographique a Vision Directe Photographies animées, fig. 16 and 36

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Five portraits including two self-portraits, one of which shows Estanave sitting with a large wooden studio camera, sculpture studies, an image of a skull, a view of gravestones, a flower study inscribed and dated 1er cliché en relief - Paris 1909, three reproductions of posters, and two studies of geometric forms.

Estanave was a disciple of Gabriel Lippmann who is perhaps best known for having produced a process of direct-colour photography based on the inference of light by using a grainless albumen emulsion. In 1908 Lippmann also developed a photographic plate, on which a negative would be formed without the use of a photographic lens, and the positive of which would give a stereoscopic impression. Estanave experimented with both these process, producing plates such as those which are offered here.

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