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Valentin Wolfenstein (19 April 1845 – 3 February 1909) was a Swedish-American photographer who worked both in Stockholm and Los Angeles, California. He was one of the first photographers to use flash-lamps for photography. He owned the first successful photography studio in Los Angeles where he photographed many famous Californians in the 1870s in 1880s. After returning to Sweden, Wolfenstein owned Atelier Jaeger, the official court photographer's studio in Stockholm, from 1890 to 1905. He was a pioneer in his field and possibly the first in Sweden to make interior pictures in theaters using flash-lamp photography. He took pictures of theater scenes and actors' dressing rooms. A particular skill he developed was taking "look-alike pictures", a double exposure technique that combined images of the same person in two different poses, for example, sitting and standing. ==Early life== Wolfenstein was born August Valentin Wolfenstein on 19 April 1845 in Falun. His parents were Viktor Adolf Wolfenstein (1817–1881) and Anna Elisabeth Wolfenstein, née Brostrom (1807–1851).〔Ancestry.com "Wolfenstein Family Tree"〕 He emigrated to the United States during the American Civil War and enlisted in New York City on 31 January 1865.〔Ancestry.com Military records〕 After the war he worked as a photographer in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had a photography studio in 1867. He established a studio in Los Angeles in 1871 on the second floor of New Temple Block in Downtown Los Angeles. Here he bought the services of Henri Penelon, a French painter, for color tinting portraits. He is listed as still being at Temple Block in 1875 in the Los Angeles city directory.〔Ancestry.com U.S. City Directories 1821–1989〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valentin Wolfenstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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