Louis Legrand (19th century) was a French
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.
Duties and types of photograp ...
based in
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
who may have been commissioned to accompany French forces and photographically document their participation in the Anglo-French military expedition to northern
China
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during the
Second Opium War
The Second Opium War (), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or ''Arrow'' War, was fought between the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China between 1856 and 1860. It was the second major ...
in 1860. No evidence has yet been found that Legrand actually joined the expedition or took photographs on it.
References
* Thiriez, Régine. ''Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's European Palaces'' (Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998), 6, 7.
19th-century births
19th-century deaths
19th-century French photographers
French expatriates in China
Place of birth missing
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