Auguste Hippolyte Collard

Auguste Hippolyte Collardd (1811–1887) was a French photographer. He set up his first photography studio in January 1856. During the Second Empire, the reign of Napoleon III in France, he ran a photography studio for twenty years, producing sequential photographs of bridges, railroads, and aqueducts. The Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works was his most important and consistent patron; from 1857 to 1870 Collard photographed every bridge constructed in Paris by the ministry. He also documented the expansion of the railroad in France, competing with Édouard-Denis Baldus for that commission. In 1867 Collard sold his studio to his son.

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