French Businessman and Amateur Daguerreotypist. He is remembered for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens as well as other ancient Egyptian monuments. The son of a wine merchant, he worked in his father's business and travelled throughout Europe and North America to promote the wine business, and eventually settled in Canada. In 1839 he was in Paris, France at the time when Louis Daguerre unveiled his early photographic process to the scientific world. Prior to leaving on a trip to the Middle East, he obtained one of the first daguerreotype cameras from Noël Paymal Lerebours in order to make photographic records of the ancient monuments he was about to see on his journey. He travelled via Malta to Greece, where he visited Athens and other places, and from there to Alexandria, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, and Turkey. After returning to Paris, five of his 92 plates were published by Lerebours in his book "Excursions daguerriennes" (1840 to 1841), others by architect Hector Horeau for his book "Panorama from Egypt and Nubia" (1841). He then moved to Quebec, Canada, but returned to Paris in 1861. He died at the age of 67. His son, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, served as Prime Minister of Quebec from 1878 until 1879.
French Businessman and Amateur Daguerreotypist. He is remembered for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens as well as other ancient Egyptian monuments. The son of a wine merchant, he worked in his father's business and travelled throughout Europe and North America to promote the wine business, and eventually settled in Canada. In 1839 he was in Paris, France at the time when Louis Daguerre unveiled his early photographic process to the scientific world. Prior to leaving on a trip to the Middle East, he obtained one of the first daguerreotype cameras from Noël Paymal Lerebours in order to make photographic records of the ancient monuments he was about to see on his journey. He travelled via Malta to Greece, where he visited Athens and other places, and from there to Alexandria, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, and Turkey. After returning to Paris, five of his 92 plates were published by Lerebours in his book "Excursions daguerriennes" (1840 to 1841), others by architect Hector Horeau for his book "Panorama from Egypt and Nubia" (1841). He then moved to Quebec, Canada, but returned to Paris in 1861. He died at the age of 67. His son, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, served as Prime Minister of Quebec from 1878 until 1879.
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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