Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (* 1863 in the Seine-et-Marne department , † 1931 ) was a French photographer.
The native French grew up in Algeria and traveled a lot, especially in the Orient. Since 1877 he devoted himself to photography. He converted to Islam in 1894 , only to make a pilgrimage to Mecca soon after .
Gervais-Courtellemont was one of the first photographers to use the autochrome technique that became famous in 1907 to take color photographs. He was one of the official picture reporters of the First World War . His photographs from the frontline areas of the war have been shown in several exhibitions, currently (2009) they are being presented together with pictures by his German colleague Hans Hildenbrand in a traveling exhibition that will be shown at ten French and German locations.
From 1923 to 1925 he wrote the work La Civilization - Histoire Sociale de la Humanité , which he illustrated with his own photographs.
He had a lifelong friendship with Pierre Loti .
About 5500 pictures by Gervais-Courtellemont have been preserved.
Devastated landscape during the First World War
General Pétain
French artillery
Web links
literature
- Pascal Aumasson et al., Voyager en couleurs. Photographies autochromes en Bretagne (1907-1929) , Rennes (Éditions Apogée) 2008, ISBN 978-2-84398-320-7
- Peter Walther (ed.), Endzeit Europa. A collective diary of German-speaking writers, artists and scholars in World War I , Göttingen (Wallstein) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0347-8
- Couleurs de guerre. Autochromes 1914-1918, Reims & La Marne , introduction by Alain Fleischer, Paris (Monum, Éditions du Patrimoine) 2006, ISBN 2-85822-879-5
- B. De Pastre and E. Devos (eds.), Les couleurs du voyage. L'œuvre photographique de Jules Gervais-Courtellemont , 2002
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gervais-Courtellemont, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seine-et-Marne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1931 |