Francesco Negri (photographer)

Francesco Negri was an Italian photographer known not only as a pictorialist but for his innovative work in photomicroscopy and in the development of the telephoto lens, and for his early experiments in Louis Ducos du Haurons techniques of colour photography. His scientific and cultural pursuits included botany and local history in both fields his publications remain significant. He served as Mayor of Casale Monferrato. In the meantime by profession he was a lawyer.

Negri was born in Tromello in Lomellina to Angelo Maria Negri and Maria Magnaghi who were welloff and wellconnected. He attended secondary school in Vigevano, then took a law degree in Turin, graduating in 1861. The following year he moved to Casale Monferrato where he married Giulia Ravizza and pursued a career in a civil law.

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