Hugely prolific French photographer Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) embraced numerous styles in her career, including fashion photography, male and female nudes as well as portraits of literary luminaries. Her innovative experiments in micrography transferred the view through the microscope onto paper, revealing tiny terrains of wonder and beauty, as shown in these examples dating from 1931. Starting next week the Jeu de Paume is hosting an exhibition covering Albin-Guillot’s entire oeuvre, the latest in the Parisian museum’s ongoing survey of great photographers past and present.
