Edmond Goldschmidt

Edmond Benedict Julian Goldschmidt (born August 30, 1863 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † March 15, 1932 in Paris ) was a French photographer . He worked with Louis Amédée Mante .

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Edmond Goldschmidt was the offspring of a wealthy French family. His father Salomon Benedict Chaim Goldschmidt came from Frankfurt am Main . In England , Edmond Goldschmidt studied at Eton College and later at Oxford University . He then returned to France and led a carefree life as a dandy . Because of his high expenses, his father provided him with some kind of carer and guardian. Goldschmidt was passionate about photography and bought the latest gadgets as soon as they showed improvements and expanded functions. He had elaborate and expensive decorations painted in his own studio , and bought a large number of matching accessories and dedicated models . In 1892 he exhibited at the “Premiere Exposition International de la Photographie”, where he was awarded a gold medal . During this important exhibition, Goldschmidt made the acquaintance of Louis Amédée Mante, who was a photographer, inventor , chemist and professional musician . From this acquaintance first a friendship grew, then a professional partnership offered itself . Mante's three daughters were busy with their ballet careers and occasionally acted as models for the painter Edgar Degas . Since the connection between Goldschmidt and Mante went beyond business, Goldschmidt fell in love with Mante's daughter Blanche. Goldschmidt went to the opera every evening , where Blanche was performing as a ballet dancer, and eventually married her.

Both photo artists cherished the vision of creating color images and experimented incessantly until it came true in the 1890s after several attempts with Mante's invention of the so-called “mantochrome”. Some photo historians suspect that the mantochromes were very close to the autochrome plates for which Lumière applied for a patent in 1904 . As a by-product of the experiments, Mante repeatedly made some further developments in the field of photography. But Mante avoided marketing his main invention, just as it never occurred to Goldschmidt to sell his pictures. Nevertheless, her photographic work was successful. The photos were taken both in Goldschmidt's house and in the special studio of the photographer Jules Richard . Goldschmidt and Mante's manto / autochrome photos taken at these locations were influenced on the one hand by Art Nouveau and on the other by neoclassical style. Oriental - exotic scenarios were prepared with preference with the costumes and the painted backdrops . For example, neoclassical Doric pillar mockups can be seen in a number of her pictures , which make the background painting appear more vivid. The model often holds grapes or a mirror or a fan in her hand and adopts a seductive pose.

Edmond Goldschmidt died on March 15, 1932 in Paris.

literature

• Jacqueline Millet: Louis-Amédée Mante, mantochromes; Edmond Goldschmidt, photographies . Créatis, Paris 1980 (French-language edition).
• Jacqueline Millet: Louis-Amédée Mante (Mantochromes); Edmond Goldschmidt (Photographer) . Ed .: Vancouver Art Gallery . Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1981 (English language edition).
• Ken Jacobsen: Odalisques and Arabesques. Orientalist Photography 1839-1925 . Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London 2007, ISBN 978-0-9550852-5-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Edmond Benedict Julian Goldschmidt. In: geneanet.org. Accessed August 20, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Sven Magnus Hanefeld: History of Fashion & Beauty Photography. 19th century . Hanefeld Media, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-9506-4 , Chapter XIV. The Autochrome process, p. 389 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Mark Jacobs Archive: History of Photography - The Autochrome. In: theimageworks.com. The Image Works, Inc., accessed August 20, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Louis-Amédée Mante. Career. In: prabook.com. Accessed August 20, 2018 .