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Last Name Jaffé
Given Name Max
alt. Names M. J. ;
Marriage
Children photographer Arthur Jaffé
Year born 1845 Schwerin, Germany
Year died 1939
Place of death Vienna
Father's occupation tradesman
Relatives 9 siblings: tradesman Moritz (1840-86); sister Rosa (1834-1927); nephew painter Otto Marcus (1863-1952); inventor Siegfried Marcus (1831-98)
Education preparatory school, tradeschool Breslau, art Nürnberg Kunstschule; 1865-8 apprentice to photographers Reutlinger & Nadar in Paris
Country of Activity Austria
Worked for J. M. Eder ; A. Rosiwal: Die krystallinischen Gesteine Balkan, Mem. Vienna Imp. Acad 57, 1890: 266 & 319f. ; Über Gesteine Usambara Stefanie-See, ibid 57, 1891 pl.1-6 ; G. Marktanner-Turneretscher: Mikrophoto. Hilfsmittel naturw. Forschungen (1890) ; geologist Dionys Stur (1885) ; Hofmann: Fauna Göriach ;
Patronage imperial court photographer Josef Löwy; taught at Graphische Lehr- u.Versuchsanstalt, ed Die Photographie 1890-7; Leopoldina; Geol. Reichsanstalt
Collaborators brother Moritz Jaffé partner ; photographer Josef Löwy, Rabending ; partner August Albert ; successor Arthur Jaffé (son) ;
Techniques geological and mineralogical daguerreotype, stereography ; Jaffétypie = halftone block, phototype, collotype, thin-ground slice microphotography ;
Sample(s) Aristides Brezina: isenmeteoriten Widmannstädtenschen Figuren, Denkschr k.k.Akad.Wiss 44,1882:121 & ibid.35,1885:151 ;
Archival sources Archiv des Technischen Museum Vienna, Jaffé file http://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Biographien/Jaffé,_Max ;
Published sources Kirchheimer 1982: 49, 55, 66 & 83 ; Otto Marcus Festschrift ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1108, 2277, 4521, 4558 & 4575 ;
other 1865-1868 Paris, 1869 to Vienna & from 1876 studio 7 Zieglergasse; invented halftone block for book printing; invented horse-drawn mobile photo laboratory 1877, developed wide-angle camera, architectural reproduction printing.
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