Carlo Ponti (Photographer)

Plass: Sagno

Født: 1822

Død: 1893

Biografi:

Carlo Ponti was a Swiss-born optician and photographer who was active in Venice from about 1848. He was born in Sagno, Canton Ticino, Switzerland between 1822 and 1824. He moved as an adult to Paris to train for about five years in the workshop of optician Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix, before settling in Venice after 1848. He opened a shop selling optical instruments and photographic materials, and became known as the inventor of camera lenses suitable for panoramic photography. He was appointed optician and photographer to the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel II. Ponti became known as the inventor of the Megaletoscope, a device for viewing large photographic images in 3D. He died in Venice in 1893.