Louis Lafon
Louis Lafon was a French photographer active between the 1870s and 1890s. He is noted for having photographed industrial scenes as well as landscapes involving man-made artifacts.
Work
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has written about Lafon, “He was based in Paris, photographed primarily industrial subjects, and won a medal for his submissions to the 1874 exhibition of the Société Française de Photographie.”Lafon used the albumen print technique, which produces a glossy surface on the images.
Lafon created a large scale photograph of a high-speed printing press fabricated by Hippolyte Marinoni. The press revolutionized the mechanical reproduction industry.