Louis-Emile Durandelle

Louis-Emile Durandelle (14 February 1839 – 12 March 1917) was a French architectural photographer. Durandelle is best known for his documentary photographs of the construction of Parisian buildings, including the Eiffel Tower and the Paris Opera.

Career From 1854 to 1862 he worked with Hyacinthe César Delmaet and Dalmaet's wife Clémence Jacob as the company Delmaet & Durandelle. After the death of Delmaet in 1862, Durandelle married Dalmaet's widow, who kept the name Clémence Jacob Dalmaet.

By 1868 the company was operating from 4 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre. Following Delmaet's death, Durandelle documented the construction of the Hotel-Dieu de Paris, Sacre Cour, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the theater at Monte Carlo and the 1882-1884 excavations under the Louvre Museum. In 1871 Between 1870 and 1871 he photographed the Paris Commune, the insurrection against the government of Napoleon III. He photographed the construction of the Eiffel Tower from 1887 until 1889. Canadian Centre for Architecture Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris Getty Museum Minneapolis Institute of Arts Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Musée d'Orsay, Paris Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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