Léon & Lévy

Léon & Lévy was a French printer and a photograph editing company located in Paris. It was founded in 1864 and specialized in stereoscopic views and picture postcards of locations in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The trade mark of the enterprise was ″L.L." ("LL").[1] The firm was one of the most important postcard editors in France.[2]

History

Stereoscopy as picture postcard;
LL 22 of the theme Germany: "The water works in Hanover"
Levy & Fils, No. 6390: "SCENES AND TYPES, Arabic women"

Léon & Lévy was founded in 1864 by Isaac and his son-in-law Moyse Léon. Isaac was also known as "Georges Lévy at that time [1] (to increase profits, he is known as J. Lévy,[2] 1833-1913) .[1]

Literature

  • John Hannavy (ed.): Léon Moysé & Lévy, Ferrier, Claude-Marie and Charles Soulier. In: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography (English), Volume I, A-L, Index, Taylor & Francis, 2007, p. 852; particularly online by Google Books
  • Joanne Adolphe: Le Guide Parisienne, Paris, 1863, p. 39 (in French, special praising of the works of Léon & Lévy)
  • Nancy B. Keeler: Illustrating the ‚Reports by the Juries‘ of the Great Exhibition of 1851 ..., In: History of Photography, Vol. 6, 1982, pp. 257–272. In: Sir David Brewster: The Stereoscope. Its History, Theory and Construction
  • Elizabeth Anne McCauley: Industrial Madness. Commercial Photographs in Paris. 1848–1871, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994
  • John Murray, 1856 (Reprint by Morgan & Morgan, 1971)
  • Jean-Marie Voignier: Les Vues Stéréoscopiques de Ferrier et Soulier, Paris: Edition du Palmier en Zinc, 1992 (includes a concordance of the first three catalogs of the years 1859, 1864 and 1870)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Paul-Antoine Briat, Alexandre de Metz (owner): Léon et Levy ... (see under External links)
  2. 1 2 Michel Mégnin: LEON & LEVY ... (see under External links)
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