Theóphile Auguste Stahl or simply Augusto Stahl, as he was known in Brazil

Brazil

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, was a German-Brazilian

German-Brazilian

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 photographer that lived during the 19th century. Born in Bergamo, in Italy

Italy

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, son of a Lutheran priest

Priest

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, Stahl disembarked in Recife

Recife

Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

 on December 31, 1853, on board the ship Thames, of the Royal English Mail. He operated in Pernambuco

Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

 until 1861, moving to Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 and receiving from the emperor D. Pedro II

Pedro II of Brazil

Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...

 the title of Photographo da Casa Imperial (Photographer of the Royal House), on April 21, 1862. A landscaper photographer, Stahl demonstrated interest for the tropical nature. He also documented the construction of the second Brazilian railway and the visit of Dom Pedro II to Recife, in 1858. He participated in various expositions of photographies in the 1860s. Stahl is known also for portraiting the everyday life of the Black

Black people

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 slave.

External links

• Mini-biography of Augusto Stahl
• Photojournalism in Nineteenth Century Brazil: A Methodological Approach (Essay focuses on the works of Augusto Stahl and Revert Henrique Klumb
  Revert Henrique Klumb
  Revert Henrique Klumb was a renowned German-Brazilian photographer who operated in Brazil in the 19th century. Probably the introducer of the stereoscopic photography in the country, Klumb obtained the title of Photographo da Casa Imperial in Rio de Janeiro...
  
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