Item no. S725b (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: France

Date of issue: 10 July 1999

Catalog number: Scott nos. B691 – B696

Booklet with 6-stamp set “Works od GREAT FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHERS” [“Les œuvres des grands photographes français”]. Shown are reproductions of photographs and names of the following photographers: Robert Doisneau (1912 – 1994); Brassaï [real name: Gyula Halász (1899 – 1984)]; Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 – 1986); Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004); Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927) and Nadar [real name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820 – 1910). The illustration on tab at the left shows portraits of two French inventors of photography – Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833), and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851).