Pierre Lanith Petit (1832–1909) was a French photographer born in Aups, in Provence. He learned photography in Paris 'with' or better under orders of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889) in the 77 employees workshop. In 1858, he opened his own workshop.
He was the official photographer of the 1867 Exposition Universelle and went to New York several times to report on the construction of the Statue of Liberty.
In 1898, he was the first photographer to attempt underwater photography.
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19th-century French photographers
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Petit, Pierre |
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1832 |
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