In photos: Remembering French photographer Henri Le Secq

Henri Le Secq atop the Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris, France, 1853 August 18, 2016 /Photography News/ Born 198 years ago, on 18 August 1818, Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq was a French photographer and painter. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1851, Le Secq was one of the five photographers selected to carry out a photographic survey of architecture (Commission des Monuments Historiques). Le Secq was trained in sculpture and worked in several studios, later starting...