Constant Puyo
Charles Émile Joachim Constant Puyo called Commandant Puyo (born November 12, 1857 in Morlaix , Finistère department , France , † October 6, 1933 in Paris ) was a French photographer of pictorialism .
Live and act
After studying at the École polytechnique , Puyo joined the army. He started working as an amateur photographer around 1889. In 1894 he joined the Photo Club de Paris and took part in its annual exhibitions. In his work Notes sur la photographie artistique from 1896, he dealt with photographic techniques and theories. In 1902 he left the army to devote himself entirely to photography and became a member of the Photo Secession . Some of his work has been featured in Alfred Stieglitz 's Camera Work magazine. Together with his compatriots Robert Demachy and René Le Bègue , he had an exhibition in 1906 in Stieglitz ' Gallery 291 in New York .
Puyo worked with image manipulation, so he preferred to use soft focus in his photographs in order to achieve an “ impressionistic effect”. His landscape photographs are often held in a diffuse light , which gives the scenario a dreamlike aspect. Light reflections and reflections of the water were also among his subjects. Together with his contemporary Demachy, he used and refined the rubber dichromate process .
With the dissolution of the Photo Club, Puyo rejoined the army at the beginning of the war in 1914. He held the rank of Capitaine ( "Commandant Puyo" ). He did not give up photography, however, until the end of his life he held exhibitions, gave photo seminars and wrote papers on photo theory. In 1931 he and his friend Demachy had a retrospective in Paris.
Contant Puyo was also a member of the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring and the Société française de photographie (SFP). A collection of his photographs is now in the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône .
bibliography
Fonts by Constant Puyo (selection)
- 1904: Le Procédé à la gomme bichromatée, traité pratique et élémentaire à l'usage des commençants . Photo Club de Paris
- 1904: Pour les debutants ; with Étienne Wallon, Photo-Club de Paris
- 1907: Le Procédé Rawlins à l'huile . Photo Club de Paris
- 1911: Le Procédé à l'huile. Nouvelle édition, refondue et augmentée . C. Mendel
literature
- Emma de Lafforest: Constant Puyo . Fage 2008, ISBN 978-2-84975-152-7
Web links
- Constant Puyo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (English)
- Constant Puyo at artfacts.net
- Search for Constant Puyo in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Photography Encyclopedia: Émile Constant Puyo . Answers.com. Retrieved September 14, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puyo, Constant |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puyo, Charles Émile Joachim Constant (full name); Commandant Puyo (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Pictorialism photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morlaix , Finistère department, France |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1933 |
| Place of death | Paris |