Gustave Le Gray was born in 1820 and was originally trained as a painter. He made his first daguerreotypes by 1847. Most of his early works included portraints such as scenes of nature. In 1851 he became one of the first five photographers hired to document French monuments and buildings.
He became the official photographer of Napoleon III and became a successful portraitist, and was also very well known for his seascapes. In terms of technical innovations, he made improvements on paper negatives by waxing them before exposure, he made a theoretical collodion process (wet plates), and he created famous seascapes by using one negative for the water and one for the sky.
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