Emmanuel Sougez

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Emmanuel Sougez (born July 16, 1889 in Bordeaux , † August 24, 1972 in Paris ; completely Louis-Victor-Emmanuel Sougez ) was a French photographer and author . Sougez was best known for his factual black and white photographs and photographic still lifes , which, along with the works of André Kertész and Germaine Krull, were part of the so-called “new European style” in photography of the 1930s.

Life

Emmanuel Sougez studied painting at the age of 15 at the painting class of the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, while also doing photography. Up until the outbreak of World War I , he mainly took landscape photos on numerous trips to Europe.

After the war, Sougez went to Paris and worked as a photojournalist for the magazine L'Illustration , whose photo service of the same name he founded in 1926 and headed until the magazine was closed in 1944. In the 1920s and 30s he made mostly black and white photos of sculptures , files and still lifes with a large-format camera and worked in advertising photography .

Stylistically, he orientated himself on the New Objectivity and the Bauhaus as well as on the clear photographs of the American Group f / 64 and implemented this in technically precise and sober medium-format and large-format photographs, which often have a metaphysical character. Around that time he began to work with the new Rolleiflex . In 1931 Sougez contacted the Leica photographer Ilse Bing , who had just relocated to France , whose "dynamic snapshots " had impressed him in a shop window. Bing introduced him to the possibilities of the Leica and the flexible 35mm camera technology. In 1934, Soutez named Ilse Bing “Queen of the Leica” in an article for L'Art Vivant magazine . The two should be linked by a long-term friendship that lasted beyond the war. In the mid-1930s, Sougez initiated the photography pure movement and, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, founded the group L'Rectangle in 1939 , which exhibited in numerous photographic salons in and outside France. After the war, Sougez joined the Groupe des XV photographers' association in Paris in 1946 , to which Robert Doisneau , Pierre Jahan and Willy Ronis belonged and who in the 1950s switched from formal, factually "pure" to poetic "subjective photography" passed over.

Photographs

(Selection of external web links)

  • Bar (1929) [1]
  • Nu - Assia années (1930) [2]
  • Le Fauteuil blanc (1931) [3]
  • 15 Verres (1933) [4]
  • Gerberas (1934) [5]
  • Trois poires (1934) [6]
  • Pineapple (1936) [7]
  • Exposition universelle, Paris (1937) [8]

bibliography

Writings of Emmanuel Sougez

  • Livre de poche Novoflex. (with Friedrich-Wilhelm Voigt), Heering, 1963

literature

  • Serge Lemoine, Françoise Dunoyelle: Figures parfaites. Tribute to Emmanuel Sougez. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001, ISBN 2-7118-4174-X (French)
  • Marie-Loup Sougez: Emmanuel Sougez. Municipale du Château d'eau Gallery, 1997, ISBN 2-907773-88-7 (French)
  • Cancer Matinero, José Ramón “Emmanuel Sougez: un hombre que hacía fotos” , en Emmanuel Sougez , Valencia, Diputación de Valencia, Valencia, España 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Frizot: New History of Photography. Könemann, 1998, pp. 472f., ISBN 3-8290-1327-2
personal data
SURNAME Sougez, Emmanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sougez, Louis-Victor-Emmanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1972
Place of death Paris