Jean-Jacques Heilmann

Jean-Jacques Heilmann French, 1822-1859 Originally from Mulhouse, J. J. Heilmann made his living as a photographer, publisher, and printer in Pau, a town in southern France near the northern border of the Pyrenees. Most of his work was produced between 1852-57. Using rapid collodion plates perfected by Adolphe Bertsch and Farnham Maxwell Lyte, Heilmann also made calotypes and ivory types of considerable sophistication. In 1853 he developed a mechanism for enlarging negatives. Heilmann frequently photographed the landscape of the Pyrenees, although he also did portraits, urban scenes,...