Alfred Normand was an architect who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1842 to 1846. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1846, he stayed in Rome from 1847 to 1851.
Besides his main occupation as an architect, his work as a photographer brought him in 1852 to cities in the Mediterranean like Rome, Pompeii, Athens and Istanbul. In the late 1880s, he travelled France, Italy, Greece, North Africa, Scandinavia, and Russia, to photograph the local architecture and monuments.
He is the author of L'architecture des nations étrangères. Études sur les principales constructions du parc à l’Exposition Universelle de Paris (1867), published in **1870.

Normand, A. (1870). L'architecture des nations étrangères. Études sur les principales constructions du parc à l’Exposition Universelle de Paris (1867), A. Morel, éditeur-libraire.