Occupation photographer | Died 1926, Mexico | |
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Full Name Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet Born 30 December 1833 Paris, France | ||
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Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet (30 December, 1833, Paris - 1926, Mexico) was a French pioneer of photography, particularly in Mexico.
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Briquet became a photographer in Paris in 1854. He taught photography at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the prominent French military academy.
He closed his studio in Paris in 1865, but it not certain when he started work in Mexico, however in 1876, he did 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.