Louis Held

Carl Heinrich Louis Held (1 December 1851 – 17 April 1927) was a German photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism.

Held was raised by relatives after the death of his parents in 1860.

He first apprenticed in a company producing silk tissues before beginning a second apprenticeship as a photographer.

There, he became a protégé of Franz Liszt and was appointed court photographer of Carl Alexander, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in 1888.

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