Société française de photographie

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The Société française de photographie ( SFP ) is a French association of photographers and the first photographic society in the world. It was founded in Paris on November 15, 1854 by Olympe Aguado, Hippolyte Bayard , Alexandre Edmond Becquerel , Eugène Durieu , Edmond Fierlants, Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, Gustave Le Gray , Henri Victor Regnault and others. Today the SFP serves as a photo-historical archive and as a research center for the history and development of photography .

history

The SFP emerged from the short-lived Société Héliographique of 1851 as a result of a photographer's secession : the calotype process, which many members of the Société Héliographique used, was perceived as elitist and out of date, although the calotypists found their process to be technically and artistically valuable and in the development is not yet complete. The SFP, on the other hand, pursued a much more commercial and future- oriented concept based on the model of the Académie des Sciences . The members of the SFP, comprised of ambitious amateurs, visual artists, business people and academics, held regular meetings in an established venue, there was an agenda and the goals were published in a program and regular bulletin . During the rest of the 19th century, the SFP devoted itself exclusively to establishing and perfecting the young medium of photography, organized regular exhibitions for its members, gave conferences and seminars that dealt with questions, artistic possibilities and innovations in the new photographic techniques and published accompanying publications out. The SFP saw itself as both a photographic academy and an archive. The prints of exhibited works were usually archived and the archive supplemented with extensive entries from members.

From the 20th century, the SFP turned primarily to photo-historical tasks and the preservation of photographic artifacts. Today the SFP functions as a research center for the history and development of photography. Since 1997, the society has published the journal Études photographiques twice a year with articles and essays by well-known photographers and art historians. The SFP has an art-historically valuable collection consisting of around 10,000 prints and 50,000 negatives (including 5,000 autochromes ), as well as a profound library with around 8,000 books and over 650 specialist journals.

The first president of the Société Française de Photographie was Henri Victor Regnault. In 1892 the company was recognized by President Sadi Carnot as a non-profit organization. The current president of the society is Paul-Louis Roubert (* 1967).

literature

  • Le temps des pionniers à travers les collections de la Société française de photographie. Center National de la Photographie, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-86754-040-2 .

Web links

Wikisource: Bulletin de la Société française de photographie  - sources and full texts
Commons : Société française de photographie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Frizot (ed.): New history of photography. Könemann, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8290-1327-2 , p. 70.
  2. ^ Société Française de Photographie. Retrieved October 30, 2009 .