Hugues Krafft

Life

Krafft was born in 1853 in Paris as the son of Guillaume and Emma Krafft. Emma Krafft came from the family of Peter Arnold Mumm, Guillaume Krafft was 1845 Partner of the champagne cellars of Louis Roederer. Hugues Krafft had a brother named Hermann and a younger sister named Felicie. The childhood spent Krafft in Reims and near Frankfurt am Main. After the outbreak of the Franco-German War of 1870 Hugues Krafft was sent to England to learn there at Eton College, the English language. At the age of 22 years Krafft was introduced by his father at Roederer and worked subsequently in the champagne cellars. Two years later the father died and Krafft finished his work in the cellars. He moved to Paris in order to dedicate herself to the art. After his mother 's death in 1880 Krafft began planning a world tour. In October 1881 he broke and reached the end of August 1882 Yokohama. From this time he has left numerous photographs. With the use of silver bromide photographic plates, a gelatin method, which was introduced in the 1880s, he is at the forefront of this recording technique that enabled him to live in Japan near snapshots outdoors. He stood out clearly from its predecessors from which recordings were made ​​in the studio. Krafft worked with a camera from Zeiss.