Camille Silvy

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Camille Silvy, 1860

Camille Léon Louis Silvy (born May 18, 1834 in Nogent-le-Rotrou , Eure-et-Loir department , † February 2, 1910 in Saint-Maurice ) was a French photographer .

Live and act

Camille Silvy came from an aristocratic family. He spent almost ten years in England during the heyday of the carte de visite during the 1860s and quickly established himself as one of the leading landscape and portrait photographers in London . With the exception of Queen Victoria , Silvy photographed all members of the royal family and most of the British aristocracy. Because of health problems, Silvy returned to France in 1868 . Silvy spent the last 31 years of his life - presumably suffering from manic depression - in closed psychiatric hospitals and died in the hospital in Saint-Maurice.

The French nobleman Camille Silvy, who lived in England , was one of the most skilled landscape and portrait photographers of the 19th and early 20th centuries , alongside Antoine Claudet , Oscar Gustave Rejlander , Walston Caselton and the sisters Marion, Jane and Anna Dixon. One of his most famous pictures was taken in 1858: La Vallée de l'Huisne ( scene by a river in France ).

Photographs

  • Sarah Davies, 1862

  • Henry Brougham Hole, around 1861

  • unknown woman, around 1860

  • Scene on a river in France, 1858

Photography and painting in the 19th century

  • Camille Silvy: Hunting Still Life with the »Times« , around 1858

  • Wilhelm Busch : Large Still Life with a Dead Hare , 1870

literature

  • Paul Frecker: Camille Silvy and the English Press, in: History of Photography, 33rd year, 2009, pp. 324–338.
  • Juliet Hacking: Camille Silvy's Repertory: The Carte-de-Visite and the London Theater, in: Art History, 33rd vol., 2010, pp. 856-885.
  • Andrea Hales: The Album of Camille Silvy, in: History of Photography, 19th Jg., 1995, pp. 82-87.
  • Mark Haworth-Booth: Camille Silvy: River Scene, France, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1992, ISBN 0-89236-205-7 . [Open Access (PDF) ]
  • Mark Haworth-Booth: The Catalog of the Sale of Camille Silvy's Studio, London 1869, in: History of Photography, 33rd vol., 2009, pp. 339-345.
  • Mark Haworth-Booth: Photographer of Modern Life. Camille Silvy, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2010, ISBN 978-1-60606-025-4 .

Web links

Commons : Camille Silvy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Haworth-Booth: Photographer of Modern Life. Camille Silvy, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2010, p. 146.
personal data
SURNAME Silvy, Camille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silvy, Camille Léon Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Nogent-le-Rotrou , Eure-et-Loir department
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1910
Place of death Saint-Maurice