Auguste Bruno Braquehais (1823-1875) initially worked as a lithographer in Caen before marrying Laure Mathilde, the daughter of Alexis and Marie Gouin, and establishing himself in 1850 as a photographer in Paris, with a studio at Place de la Madelaine.  Before making history with his outstanding photographs of the Parisian Commune, the first historical event to be photographically documented and thus considered the birth of journalistic photography, he created remarkable portraits, pursuing the his father-in-law’s stereoscopic tradition of nude photography with an increased theatrical