Louis-Auguste Bisson
Louis-Auguste Bisson (born April 21, 1814 in Paris , France, † May 12, 1876 there ) was a French photographer and photography pioneer .
life and work
Louis-Auguste Bisson was the son of Heraldry - painter Louis-François Bisson (1795-1865) and the photographer elder brother Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826 to 1900).
Louis-Auguste Bisson took drawing lessons at home, studied architecture and worked as an architect for the Paris city council.
In 1841 Louis-François Bisson began to experiment with daguerreotypes . Just one year later, Louis-Auguste Bisson, after making contact with Louis Daguerre in 1841 , developed a way of permanently stabilizing his photographs.
Father and older son opened a photo studio in 1841, which soon became known throughout Paris. The younger brother Auguste-Rosalie soon got into a partnership for the photo studio with Louis-Auguste and the two became famous as the Bisson brothers (" Frères Bisson ").
In 1860 they accompanied Napoleon III. during his visit to Savoy . The brothers took remarkable pictures of the local landscape. In 1861, the two of them climbed Mont Blanc , along with twenty-five porters for their extensive photographic equipment.
Your photos were developed using the collodion process, with very large negatives, often up to 30 cm × 40 cm.
One of the most famous works by the Bisson brothers is the only known photo of the composer Frédéric Chopin .
In 1977, photographic works by both brothers were shown at documenta 6 in Kassel in the famous photography department , which presented the connection to contemporary art in the context of “ 150 years of photography ”.
Literature and Sources
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance ; Volume 2: photography, film, video ; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books. Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- Honnef, Klaus: 150 years of photography (extended special edition of Kunstforum International: 150 years of photography III / photography at documenta 6 , volume 22). Mainz, Frankfurt am Main (two thousand and one) 1977
- Hannavy, John (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York 2005, ISBN 978-0415972352
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis-Auguste Bisson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Examples of his photographs
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bisson, Louis-Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bisson, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1876 |
| Place of death | Paris |