Paul Bergon
Paul Bergon (* 1863 in Paris ; † late January 1912 there ) was a French photographer of pictorialism , musician and natural scientist.
Life
Bergon, the only son of a banker from Figeac , received musical training from Théodore Dubois and Léo Delibes . He started taking photos in 1885. He has been collecting fossil diatoms since his collège . In 1892 he published on the advice of Maurice Peragallos Diatomiste de Tempère , which contained microphotographs of diatoms. Until 1895 he made photographic recordings both for documentation and souvenir purposes. In 1893 he became a member of the Société française de photographie . As part of this, he presented a stereoscopic camera that is said to be particularly suitable for detailed botanical recordings.
From 1895 he also pursued artistic approaches in photography and now devoted himself to nude photography instead of documenting. He was now also a member of the Photo-Club de Paris and took part in every exhibition of the club. Until 1908 he used the charcoal process almost exclusively for his work , although two-tone rubber prints and oil prints have also been preserved from him . His photographs were primarily taken on the Île d'Herblay near Herblay-sur-Seine in the Val-d'Oise .
In 1892 he created the illustrations for the book Costume d'Atelier together with his nephew René Le Bègue , as well as Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo , all also members of the Photo Club . He continued working with his nephew in 1898 on the book Le Nu et le Drapé en Plein Air . In 1901 he moved to Arcachon for health reasons , where he further expanded his scientific collection.
He was also known as an orchid eologist, here he co-wrote a treatise on it.
In 1909 he won the Prix Thore of the Académie des Sciences for his diatom studies. Bergon was very interested in the autochrome process and obtained the equipment to use it.
In addition to the Photo Club exhibitions in Paris, but also Liège (1905), he took part in exhibitions in Turin in 1902 and in Budapest in 1903. He left about 5,000 negatives.
literature
- Paul Bergon , in: Michèle Auer: Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours , Vol. 1, Geneva 1985, o. P.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gen Doy: Drapery: classicism and barbarism in visual culture . IBTauris, 2002, ISBN 1-86064-538-0 , p. 50 [1]
- ^ Tilmann Seebass: Imago Musicae . Duke University Press, Rochester, New York, 1988, p. 173 with fn. 14 [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergon, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pictorialist photographer, musician and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1912 |
| Place of death | Paris |