Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Lion, Jules |
Notes |
Jules Lion, a French-born free man of color, is credited as being the first African-American photographer in New Orleans. A master lithographer known for his lithographed portraits of prominent people such as Andrew Jackson and John James Audubon worked briefly with Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in Paris in 1939. Lions returned to New Orleans in 1840 with the revolutionary photo process called the daguerreotype. |
Nationality |
French-American |
Occupation |
Lithographer and photographer |
