Annuaire Général et International de la Photographie 1900 (9th Year)

Pub­lished in its ninth annu­al edi­tion in 1900, the Annu­aire Général et Inter­na­tion­al de la Pho­togra­phie was one of the lead­ing French ref­er­ence works for pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers and advanced ama­teurs at the turn of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. Edit­ed by Marc Le Roux, it com­bined tech­ni­cal arti­cles, indus­try infor­ma­tion, direc­to­ries, and adver­tise­ments with exten­sive illus­tra­tions, doc­u­ment­ing the rapid devel­op­ment of pho­tog­ra­phy dur­ing this peri­od. The vol­ume also con­tains a mul­ti-page illus­trat­ed adver­tise­ment for Jules Richard’s Veras­cope cam­eras and Homéo­scopes (see image), reflect­ing the com­pa­ny’s grow­ing impor­tance in stereo­scop­ic pho­tog­ra­phy and the pro­mo­tion of its prod­ucts to the wider pho­to­graph­ic com­mu­ni­ty. Today, the Annu­aire pro­vides valu­able insight into the pho­to­graph­ic indus­try and the com­mer­cial context.