Laure Albin Guillot

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Laure Albin Guillot , nee Meifredy (born February 15, 1879 - † February 22, 1962 ) was a French photographer. In addition to portraits of Parisian celebrities, her work covered a wide range of genres and she held a variety of high-profile positions.

Life

Born Laure Meifredy in Paris, she attended the Lycée Molière in the 16th arrondissement . In 1897 she married Dr. Albin Guillot, a microscopy specialist. She worked from home in her studio on rue du Ranelagh and her first photographs were published in the French edition of Vogue in 1922. In the same year she won a gold medal in a competition sponsored by the Revue Francaise de Photographie. From 1924 to 1950 she regularly took part in the Salon international de photographie and the Salon des artistes décorateurs. She had her first solo exhibition with forty prints at the Paris Société du Salon d'Automne in 1925. The works that she exhibited in 1925 as part of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern were primarily signed with her name, Laure Albin Guillot paved the way to their later success.

After her husband died in 1929, she moved to the Boulevard de Beauséjour, where she received important contemporary artists and writers, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Anna de Noailles and Jean Cocteau . During the 1930s she made extensive trips to North Africa, Spain, Italy, Sweden and the United States. Her work was often printed by the press while at the same time she took part in solo and collective exhibitions at home and abroad.

In 1931 she was the first French personality who made decorative, microscopic pictures, which she called micrography , and thus combined science and fine arts. In the same year she was elected President of the Union féminine des carrières libérales et commerciales, an organization that felt obliged to defend the interests of women in professional life. In 1932 she obtained several key positions in the arts and culture, including being appointed director of photographic archives at the Direction générale des Beaux-Arts (predecessor organization of the French Ministry of Culture ), the first curator of the Cinémathèque française .

The first work in which she combined photography and literature was published in 1936 when she illustrated Paul Valéry's Narcisse . During the German occupation from 1940 to 1944 she published further works. In 1937 she organized the exhibition Femmes artistes d'Europe. After the Second World War , Albin Guillot continued working as a portrait photographer in her studio on Boulevard du Séjour until she retired in 1956 at the Maison Nationale des Artistes in Nogent-sur-Marne . She died on February 22nd, 1962 in the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris. She left 52,000 negatives and 20,000 prints in the archive of her studio. Her works are now owned by the city of Paris.

style

Laure Albin Guillot's exhibited works from the 1920s show a classic approach to the French style and no adaptation to the avant-garde trends of the time. However, it was in the 1930s and 1940s that her work dominated the photographic scene. It covered a wide variety of genres, from portraits and nude photography to landscape photography and still life. To a lesser extent, she was also active as a journalist. Laure Albin Guillot always knew how to take a leading role in applying the latest technological achievements in photography, which made it easier for her to include her works in a wide variety of publications.

Illustrated works

Laure Albin Guillot illustrated the following works:

  • Paul Valéry : Narcisse (1936)
  • Paul Valéry: La Cantate du Narcisse (1941)
  • Paul Valéry: Arbres (1943)
  • Pierre Louÿs: Les Douze Chansons de Bilitis (1937)
  • Henry de Montherlant : La Déesse Cypris (1946)
  • Illustrations pour les Preludes de Claude Debussy (1948)

Exhibitions

  • Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962) l'enjeu classique, 26 February - 12 May 2013, Jeu de Paume , Paris

Awards

  • 1922: Médaille d'or (gold medal), Revue française de photographie.

literature

  • Laure Albin Guillot, Christian Bouqueret, Musée d'Evreux, Capitou, Center d'art contemporain, Musée Sainte-Croix: Laure Albin Guillot, ou, La volonté d'art . Marval, 1996 (French, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Laure Albin Guillot, l'enjeu classique , preface: Marta Gili; text: Delphine Desveaux, Catherine Gonnard, Michaël Houlette and Patrick ‑ Gilles Persin, 2013, bilingual French / English, jointly published by Jeu de Paume and Éditions de la Martinière, 192 pages, ISBN 978-2732455143

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Laure Albin-Guillot. In: International Center of Photography. January 31, 2018, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962) L'enjeu classique du 26 février au 12 may 2013 Jeu de Paume, Paris. (PDF; 1.1 MB) Retrieved July 18, 2020 (French, article as PDF ).
  3. ^ A b "Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962), l'enjeu classique" , Jeu de Paume. (French) Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  4. ^ "Laure Albin Guillot" , Verdeau Gallery. (French) Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  5. ^ A b Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962), The Question of Classicism. In: Le Jeu de Paume. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Laure Albin Guillot. In: Nos musées. Ministére de la Culture, accessed March 10, 2020 (French).
  7. ↑ Armelle Canitrot: Laure Albin Guillot, retour à la lumière. In: La Croix. March 4, 2013, accessed March 14, 2013 (French).
  8. ^ "Laure Albin Guillot" , Agence Roger Viollet. (French) Retrieved March 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Guillot, Laure Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meifredy, Laure Albin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1879
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1962