IMS as the "oldest photographic record existing on the American continent, based on the sensitivity of silver salts to light". Cultural references A film documentary, featuring Adriana Florence, a grand-grand-granddaughter of Hércules Florence living in Campinas, Brazil, has been made by the Discovery Channel and retraces part of the Baron von Langsdorff expedition's itinerary. It also visited the St. Petersburg's Langsdorff museum collections. The director was Mauricio Dias. Tras las Huellas de la Expedición Langsdorff. Discovery Channel in Spanish. Bibliography Florence, Hércules. Voyage fluvial du Tieté à l'Amazone, published in Portuguese as Viagem Fluvial do Tietê ao Amazonas. Hércules Florence, Brazilian edition with translation by Francisco Álvares Machado and Vasconcellos Florence, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 1977. Vieillard, J.: A Zoophonia de Hercule Florence. Editora da Universidade de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, 1993. William Luret: "Les trois vies d'Hercule Florence", éditions JC Lattès, Paris 2001 Kossoy, Boris: "Hercules Florence, o pioneiro da fotografia no Brasil",O Estado de S.Paulo, Suplemento Literário,São Paulo,1973. Kossoy, Boris: Hercule Florence: "Pioneer of photography in Brazil", Image, 20 (1) Rochester, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, March 1977. Kossoy, Boris: The pioneering photographic work of Hercule Florence, New York/London, Routledge, 2018. Kossoy, Boris: Hercule Florence: A descoberta isolada da fotografia no Brasil, 3ed., Editora da Universidade de São Paulo - Edusp, São Paulo, 2006 (1st ed. 1977). Kossoy, Boris: Hercule Florence: La découverte isolée de la photographie au Brésil, Paris, l'Harmattan, 2017. Kossoy, Boris: Hercule Florence: el descubrimiento aislado de la fotografía, Madrid, Cátedra Ed., 2017. Kossoy, Boris: Hercule Florence: die entdeckung der fotografie in Brasilien, Vienna, Lit Verlag, 2015. References External links Dicionário das Artes Visuais (in Portuguese) Documents and publications about Hercule Florence at Instituto Hercule Florence's Corisco IHF database Brazilian artists French emigrants to Brazil Brazilian inventors Pioneers of photography 1804 births 1879 deaths People from Campinas