Album Horace Vernet front cover 30 cartes des visite 16cm high x 11cm wide x 3. His reputation among artists and critics, on the other hand, was not uncontested.
This also helps date the compilation of the whole album. Born in near Leicester in England, Bingham had a background in chemistry. He was particularly interested in photographic processes, and published a treatise on this subject in Bingham first exhibited his photographs of landscapes and of copies of paintings in London at The Great Exhibition in In he established a photographic portrait studio in Paris, which thrived throughout the s and continued under his name even after his death in Brussels in Bingham also made photographs of the Exposition Universelle of in Paris.
His ability to take some photographs at relatively high speeds on this occasion encouraged other photographers to use the collodion process for their work as well, helping it become the most popular method from until about Henry Cole sent him at the same time to the Louvre to photograph the masterpieces of the museum collection.
At some point in , or , Bingham moved to Paris to work there as a photographer, at first together with the American Warren T. Thompson until Thompson returned to England in Bingham not only worked at the Exposition, but also displayed his own life-size portraits, for which he won a Medal First Class.
Due to a lack of commercial success, however, he soon stopped producing these huge photographs and stuck to more standard formats. He became friends with many artists, photographing them and their works, and started on a new project, a photographic collection of the works of the recently deceased painter Paul Delaroche. It was followed over the next few years by similar works about other artists, including one in on Ary Scheffer and another one with photographs of the major works of the Salon.
