Abstract
Abstract It was in the early 1850s in the service of architectural documentation that photography found its first flowering of artistic expression in France, and Edouard-Denis Baldus (1813-c. 1890) could justifiably claim to be the greatest and most successful of early French architectural photographers. By depicting the nation's history through the legacy of Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance builders and its destiny through the achievements of Second Empire architects and engineers, Baldus's architectural photographs of the 1850s celebrated the past and future of France.
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