Louis-Auguste: b. 1814; d. 1876 Auguste-Rosalie: b. 1826; d. 1900
Louis Bisson opened up a photographic studio in the early 1841, and soon after, his brother Auguste entered into partnership with him. Their studio was in the Madeleine in Paris, and they became famous as the Bisson Brothers.
In 1860 they were invited to accompany Napoleon as he visited the province of Savoy. These two brothers produced some superb images of the scenery. Encouraged by the response to his work, the following year Auguste ascended Mount Blanc, taking with him twenty-five porters to carry his equipment.
The quality of the pictures, made almost entirely using the Collodion process, was remarkable, as was the size of the negatives - sometimes up to 30cm x 40cm!
The Bisson brothers only practised for some four years. By this time the Carte-de-visite era was in full swing, and the brothers saw little point in reducing the finely detailed images to such a small size. Consequently, their business folded.