Description: 16.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Emmanuel Lorson Born around 1811, Joseph Emmanuel Lorson was a shoe merchant, shoemaker and grocer in Gometz-le-Châtel (Essonne). It was in this village that his three children were born between 1840 and 1851. Afterwards, around ten years passed of which we know nothing. It is possible that he was initially a traveling photographer. During the 1861 census, he was a photographer, living at 31, rue du Plessis in Versailles (Yvelines). This mention is the only trace we have of his professional activity in France. Was it him or his son Ernest Lorson, he was not yet 20 years old, who went to work in Switzerland? In May 1863, "La Feuille d'opinion de Neuchâtel" informed its readers that Sr Lorson, photographer, could take their portrait. There are also “business card” photographs signed Lorson in Morges (canton of Vaud). Who made them? Emmanuel, Ernest or the two who worked together? In her study on "The Lorson dynasty dissected", published in Spectrum in 2009, Maria Portmann dates Ernest Lorson's installation in Friborg to 1863. In this city, he would have a brilliant career that would continue for three generations. Ernest Lorson died in Friborg on January 5, 1923. At the age of 80, he had become the dean of photographers in French-speaking Switzerland. The cantonal and university library of Friborg maintains a collection of 700 photographs signed by Ernest Lorson or his son Alfred (1868-1945) which illustrated the magazine "Fribourg Artistique Through the Ages". Joseph Emmanuel Lorson, the shoemaker from Gometz-le-Châtel, did not imagine when he gave up repairing the galoshes of his modest clientele to launch into photography that he would be the first link in a dynasty of Swiss photographers.
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Type: Photograph
Format: Carte de Visite (CDV)
Year of Production: 1875
Photographer: E. Lorson
Theme: carte de visite
Time Period Manufactured: 1850-1899
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Production Technique: Albumen Print
Country/Region of Manufacture: Switzerland
