René Le Bègue (photographer)

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Etude de Nu ( heliogravure , 1904)

René Le Bègue (* 1857 ; † 1914 ) was a French photographer. He is considered a leading representative of pictorialism in France.

Life

Le Bègue was a founding member of the Photo-Club de Paris in 1888 together with Robert Demachy , which was later joined by Constant Puyo , another of the leading French-speaking pictorialists of his time. As the first French photographer ever, he was accepted into the art photographers association Brotherhood of the Linked Ring in 1894 .

From 1894 Le Bègues works took part in various exhibitions in France. In the first quarter of 1906 they were shown in Alfred Stieglitz ' Gallery 291 in New York. In addition, some of his recordings have been published in well-known contemporary journals, for example in Camera Notes or Die Kunst der Fotografie . Two of his pictures can be found in Camera Work , October 1906 edition. Together with his uncle Paul Bergon , who also took photographs, and Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo , who were also members of the Photo Club, he illustrated the book Costume d'Atelier in 1892 . He also created the book Le Nu et le Drapé en Plein Air together with his uncle in 1898 . His recordings were also used to illustrate other books.

Fonts

  • Paul Bergon, René Le Bègue: Art photographique. Le nu & le drapé en plein air. C. Mendel, Paris 1898 (?)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed November 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Baier: Source representations for the history of photography . 2nd edition, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921375-60-6 , p. 533
  3. ^ Website luminous-lint, accessed November 5, 2011
  4. ↑ z. B .: Bruno Meyer: Female beauty. Critical considerations on the representation of the naked in painting and photography. With 250 painterly nude studies in color printing by René Le Bègue, Egbert Falk, painter W. Hartig, Professor HL v. Jan, O. Lippincott, art photographer E. Schnieder and an introduction by Government Councilor Ludwig Cabinet . Stuttgart, Kunstverlag von Klemm & Beckmann 1905 (see website en.zvab, accessed on November 6, 2011 )
  5. ↑ Worldcat website on Le Bègue, accessed on November 5, 2011

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SURNAME Le Bègue, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
DATE OF DEATH 1914