Credits and Acknowledgements

This website has been possible thanks to the assistance of numerous contributors.
For their technical support, I would like to thank Dana Morris, Digital Arts Operations Manager, and Cynthia C. Barlow, Peter Treistman Fine Arts Center for New Media, College of Fine Arts, The University of Arizona.
I wish to thank Héctor Fernández-Soriano, Electronic Graphics Designer, Pima Community College, for the design of this website and for his support.

My most sincere acknowledgements for his contribution to Carlos Teixidor-Cadenas, Acting Curator, Archivo Fotográfico Ruiz Vernacci, Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico Español, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura. I also want to thank for his valuable contribution Pau Maynés-Tolosa, Conservator, Research Scholar in Residence, George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film. Furthermore, I want to express my gratitude to Marcia Tiede, Curatorial Assistant/Cataloguer, for her catalogue of Jean Laurent´s work within the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona.
Dr. Carlos Badía-Villaseca, psychiatrist specializing in the translation and edition of scholarly texts in different languages, has taken care of the style of the texts written in Spanish. For grammar corrections and style I have had the help of Dana Morris, Digital Arts Operations Manager, Peter Treistman Fine Arts Center for New Media, College of Fine Arts, and Dustin Leavitt, Preparator, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. To all of them I would like to express my gratitude.

For their faith and support in this project, I would like to thank Professor Mike Holcomb, Director of Digital Arts, Dana Morris, Digital Arts Operations Manager, and Cynthia C. Barlow, Peter Treistman Fine Arts Center for New Media, College of Fine Arts, The University of Arizona.
For the authorization to use images from their collections, I would like to thank the following collectors: Manuel Magalhaes, architect; J. M. Martins-Ferreira, Associate Professor, Universidade do Porto; Nuno Borges-de Araújo; Mario Fernández-Albarés, PhD Candidate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Juan Naranjo, historian of photography.
For their valuable contribution regarding bibliography sources, I would like to thank the following individuals: Joe R. Struble, Assistant Archivist, George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film; Carlos Teixidor-Cadenas, Acting Curator, Archivo Fotográfico Ruiz Vernacci, Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico Español, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura; Pau Maynés-Tolosa, Conservator, Research Scholar in Residence, George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film; J. M. Martins-Ferreira, Associate Professor, Universidade do Porto, and collector; Nuno Borges-de Araújo, collector; Manuel Magalhaes, architect and collector; Harumi Goy, Ph.D. candidate and library trainee, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Carmela Pérez-Montes Salmerón, Director, Biblioteca General de Humanidades, CSIC; Juan Naranjo, historian of photography and collector; Carmen Priego-Fernández del Campo, Director, Museo Municipal de Madrid; and María Teresa Muñoz-Benavente, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Información Documental de Archivos.

For their precious information regarding the collections mentioned on this website, I would like to thank the following individuals and institutions:

In Spain: Carlos Teixidor-Cadenas, Acting Curator, Archivo Fotográfico Ruiz Vernacci, Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico Español, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura; Isabel Ortega, Biblioteca Nacional; Carmen Priego-Fernández del Campo, Director, Museo Municipal de Madrid; Asunción Domeño, Legado Ortíz Echagüe, Universidad de Navarra; Carmela Pérez-Montes Salmerón, Director, Biblioteca General de Humanidades, CSIC; Juan Naranjo, historian of photography and collector; María Teresa Muñoz-Benavente, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Información Documental de Archivos; and Marta Gili, "la Caixa."

In the United States of America: Joe R. Struble, Assistant Archivist, George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film; Dr. Susette Newberry, Cornell University; Maxine Rosston, Assistant Curator, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Anne E. Havinga, Assistant Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Steve Thomas, California University, Riverside; Julie Melby, Associate Curator of Graphic Arts, Toledo Museum of Art; Timothy A. Riggs, Assistant Director of Collections, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Steve Moriarty, The Fritz and Milly Kaeser Curator of Photography, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame; Beth Ann Guynn, Reference Librarian, and Wim de Witt, Director, Special Collections, Getty Research Institute; Ann Sinfield, Collections & Exhibitions Assistant, The Art Museum, and Robin Meador-Woodruff, Associate Curator of Photographs/ Coordinator of Museum Collections, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Steve Yates, Museum of New Mexico; Sharon Frost, Photography Specialist, New York Public Library; Mia Fineman, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Andrew Hershberger, Curatorial Assistant, and Toby Jurovics, Associate Curator of Photography, The Art Museum, Princeton University; Jennie Fleming, Curatorial Assistant, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Tamara Bloomberg, Museum of Contemprary Art, San Diego; William Johnson, Collector and Coordinator, Research Center, Visual Studies Workshop; and Dr. Keith McElroy, Collector and Associate Professor, The University of Arizona.

In Portugal: Manuel Magalhaes, architect and collector; J. M. Martins-Ferreira, collector and Associate Professor, Universidade do Porto; Nuno Borges-de Araújo, collector; and Mário Marques, collector.

In the Netherlands: Hans Roosenboom, Assistant Curator, Rijksmuseum.

In Canada: Cybermuse, The National Gallery of Canada; and Louise Desy, Associate Curator, Centre Canadien d' Architecture, Montreal.

In Brazil: Pedro Karp-Vasquez.

Finally, I would like to thank Jill Provan, Librarian, Tucson Museum of Art, for letting me use the TMA resources to digitize some of the images available on this website.

This website would not have been possible without the support of the College of Fine Arts, The University of Arizona. The support of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, has been essential for this project. This project could not have been organized without the generous assistance of the Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between the United States and Spain.

I would like to apologize to those contributors whom I may have omitted unconsciously.

Jean Laurent´s Nineteenth-Century Spain: Early Works from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography

I am grateful to the following staff members of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, for their valuable contribution to the organization of this display: Trudy Wilner Stack, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections; Dustin Leavitt, Preparator; Jeanne Courtemanche, Director of Communications; Marcia Tiede, Curatorial Assistant/ Cataloguer; Laura Downey, Conservator; Pat Evans, Curatorial Associate; and Dianne Nilsen, Principal, Rights and Reproductions Department.

I would like to thank Terry Pitts, former director of the Center for
Creative Photography, The University of Arizona for the opportunity to organize this display.

In writing these texts, I had the help of Carlos Teixidor-Cadenas, Acting Curator, Archivo Ruiz Vernacci, Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico Español, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, and Pau Maynés-Tolosa, Conservator, Scholar in Residence at the George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film. I also wish to thank my colleague, Lula Álvarez, postgraduate student at the George Washington University and Fulbright Scholar, for her advice on museology resources. I also wish to thank my friend Harumi Goy, Ph.D. candidate and librarian trainee, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, for her help in searching bibliography sources for this project.

This display could not have been organized without the generous
assistance of the Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between
the United States and Spain.

I would like to apologize to those contributors whom I may have omitted unconsciously.

Jean (Juan) Laurent
(France, active Spain and Portugal, 1816- before 1892)
[D. Fernando II, King of Portugal]
n.d.
Carte de visite
Courtesy Manuel Magalhaes, Porto, Portugal