Carl Durheim

Carl Durheim, also known as Karl Durheim and Charles Durheim, (23 November 1810 – 30 January 1890) was a Swiss lithographer and an early photographer. He began working with daguerreotype in 1845 and changed to a paper printing process in 1849.^[1] Between 1852 and 1853 Durheim created a series of photos of itinerants for the Swiss police, which is the earliest remaining collection of police photography.^[2] Durheim produced many portraits of seated individuals.

Self-portrait of Carl Durheim next to a camera on the table (circa 1850), hand-colored calotype

Durheim was born in Bern, Switzerland. He died there on 30 January 1890.

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  Lithograph of the Aargau, Solothurn, & Basel canton
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  Postmortem of a Child, hand-colored daguerreotype (circa 1852)
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  Lithograph of the first Federal Palace in Bern, built 1852–57, now the west wing of the Federal Palace.
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  Joseph Körbler photographic portrait