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on 22 July 1859, Bernhoeft was the son of army officer Carl Johann Adolph
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Bernhoeft was also an inventor, developing systems providing indirect artificial lighting to facilitate portrait photography. He adapted the approach to magnesium flash photography, which proved successful for photographing children, unable to keep still for very long. He patented the device as
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was at 1, rue du Génie (now avenue
Monterey), but by 1900 he constructed a three-storey building he called Atelier Bernhoeft at the corner of rue de l'Arsenal (Grand-Rue) and boulevard Royal. For his portraits, he used the widely available
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Bernhoeft's work did much to encourage tourism, which was just beginning to develop at the time. He not only published photographic albums documenting
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Bernhoeft created a number of photo albums, illustrated magazines and several series of postcards, one of which contains 1,600 different images. Some 20 people were employed by his firm,
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