Charles Aubry

Charles Aubry French, 1811-1877 A Parisian trained as an industrial designer, Charles Aubry was among those early advocates of photography who recognized its potential as an aid to art and design. Noting the inadequacy of the didactic tools used by academies and schools, Aubry wrote in the introduction to his Studies of Leaves (1864), which he presented to the Prince Impérial, ". . . in order to facilitate the study of nature, I caught it in the act, and I hereby offer to workers some models that may increase our productivity in the industrial arts . . . ." But he added significantly...