Auguste-Rosalie Bisson

Works by this Artist

Ascent of Mont Blanc (Passage des Echelles)
Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, 1862

Background

family of photographers

Career

Often worked with his brother, Louis-Auguste Bisson (Bisson frères)

1860 – publishes Mont Blanc and its Glaciers (Le Mont Blanc et ses glaciers)

1869 – produces 450 photographs while in Egypt

1871 – photographs siege of Paris during Franco-Prussian War; images are exhibited throughout Europe

Travels

Switzerland (1860s); Egypt (1869)

Readings:

Hannavy, John. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York: Taylor and
Francis Group, 2008