FROM "THE JOURNAL OF COTE D'" MAY 29
Near Chalon-sur-Saone:
Discovery of the oldest photo lab in the world
A laboratory intact, as its owner had left it closed yesterday, 152 years ago.
A key turn and a door opened with a history dating back 152 years. A laboratory of one of the leading photographers in the world has been rediscovered intact. It was in 1840 that Fortune Joseph Petiot-Groffier opens his laboratory. He will use it until 1855 and died mysteriously, possibly because of photographic chemistry. Cautiously, his heirs closed the porte.De generation to generation, remains around Chalon remained busy but the room remained closed but without being totally forgotten. Because the family has always been aware of and keep a treasure but remained sealed off carefully double-locked behind his wooden door on the second floor - now empty - from the house. Two years ago, the last family member inherits to turn the house and there he discovered the treasure. But it will take two years to determine who will choose to confide in, anxious to preserve the full, not disperser.C the east and in the beginning of the year, he decided to contact Pierre-Yves Mahe, the initiator of the House Niépce, Saint-Loup de Varennes. "I have something to show you," he slips. Pierre-Yves Mahe wants to come see firsthand the reality of this discovery without a second guess what's coming. "I do not attach huge importance to this announcement at the start," said Mr. Mahe has already seen promising sensational discoveries prove well banales.Pourtant finally, when the famous door finally opens before him, is a world that appears forgotten. A complete laboratory, intact, as the user had left her just before his death in 1855 and left the state since. "It was a heady moment, we do not know where to look there were hundreds of bottles of chemicals, often full, hundreds of books, objects around which several devices to achieve the images under the first two photographic processes, the Daguerreotype and Collodion. "And for him who 's invested since 1999 in its draft Niépce House is immediately instant answers to his questions, research perspectives. "Everything was shaking his head in a moment." In the emotion of the moment, a thought arises: "what if all this burned tomorrow, I would be remiss in my life." Then Pierre-Yves Mahe photography. Everything. Haphazardly. "There was urgency to save something." The shock of discovering past, House officials Niépce, Pierre-Yves Mahe, but also Jean-Louis Marignier Michele Lourseau, enter the complete inventory of the treasure that n 'has not finished delivering all of its secrets. "We have for several months of study," said Mr. Mahe today. Not a priori, such an amount of time chemistry had indeed been found, more than 300 bottles still filled with many still sealed. Coupled with this, more than 400 pounds prior to the 1830's containing all the knowledge of the day on which a photographer was build. Of course, all the accessories necessary to achieve and Daguerreotypes Collodion there are complet.Grâce this quantum leap in time that a door opening has him perform, the laboratory and research findings will be presented in the Niépce House in Saint-Loup de Varennes, in the heart of the territory's birth photographic adventure. definitely Burgundy.
A laboratory intact, as its owner had left it closed yesterday, 152 years ago.
A key turn and a door opened with a history dating back 152 years. A laboratory of one of the leading photographers in the world has been rediscovered intact. It was in 1840 that Fortune Joseph Petiot-Groffier opens his laboratory. He will use it until 1855 and died mysteriously, possibly because of photographic chemistry. Cautiously, his heirs closed the porte.De generation to generation, remains around Chalon remained busy but the room remained closed but without being totally forgotten. Because the family has always been aware of and keep a treasure but remained sealed off carefully double-locked behind his wooden door on the second floor - now empty - from the house. Two years ago, the last family member inherits to turn the house and there he discovered the treasure. But it will take two years to determine who will choose to confide in, anxious to preserve the full, not disperser.C the east and in the beginning of the year, he decided to contact Pierre-Yves Mahe, the initiator of the House Niépce, Saint-Loup de Varennes. "I have something to show you," he slips. Pierre-Yves Mahe wants to come see firsthand the reality of this discovery without a second guess what's coming. "I do not attach huge importance to this announcement at the start," said Mr. Mahe has already seen promising sensational discoveries prove well banales.Pourtant finally, when the famous door finally opens before him, is a world that appears forgotten. A complete laboratory, intact, as the user had left her just before his death in 1855 and left the state since. "It was a heady moment, we do not know where to look there were hundreds of bottles of chemicals, often full, hundreds of books, objects around which several devices to achieve the images under the first two photographic processes, the Daguerreotype and Collodion. "And for him who 's invested since 1999 in its draft Niépce House is immediately instant answers to his questions, research perspectives. "Everything was shaking his head in a moment." In the emotion of the moment, a thought arises: "what if all this burned tomorrow, I would be remiss in my life." Then Pierre-Yves Mahe photography. Everything. Haphazardly. "There was urgency to save something." The shock of discovering past, House officials Niépce, Pierre-Yves Mahe, but also Jean-Louis Marignier Michele Lourseau, enter the complete inventory of the treasure that n 'has not finished delivering all of its secrets. "We have for several months of study," said Mr. Mahe today. Not a priori, such an amount of time chemistry had indeed been found, more than 300 bottles still filled with many still sealed. Coupled with this, more than 400 pounds prior to the 1830's containing all the knowledge of the day on which a photographer was build. Of course, all the accessories necessary to achieve and Daguerreotypes Collodion there are complet.Grâce this quantum leap in time that a door opening has him perform, the laboratory and research findings will be presented in the Niépce House in Saint-Loup de Varennes, in the heart of the territory's birth photographic adventure. definitely Burgundy.
C. Saulnier
Who was Fortune-Joseph Petiot Groffier? Fortune-Joseph Petiot Groffier is contemporary Niepce, J. Chalon sur Saône, then mayor of that city from 1832, one year before the death of Niépce. Considered the father of the local industry (he founded the candy Chalon sur Saone and saves the Creusot after the bankruptcy of English society Mauby and Wilson). It looks at the picture in 1840, knows Niépce and his cousin Niepce de Saint Victor, Baldus, Plumier, all photographers of the time. It uses the same suppliers and accessories including those of Nicephorus optician Charles Chevalier and working with bankers who accompanied the Niépce all their lives, the Costes brothers.
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