Henri Le Secq

Henri Le Secq was a French photographer who studied painting under Paul Delaroche. He was a contemporary of other notable photographers such as Charles Nègre and Gustave Le Gray, who also trained under Delaroche. Le Secq was involved in the early development and promotion of photography as an artistic medium. He was a founding member of the Societé Héliographique, France's first photographic society. One of his notable photographs is Le Stryge (1853), which features his friend Le Secq posing next to a gargoyle on Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Le Secq was also known for his work in heliogravure, a photomechanical printing process.1