Career
He died in 2003 at Little Rock, Arkansas. Fonssagrives was a fashion photographer in the 1940s and 1950s when he took pictures for Town and Country and Harper"s Bazaar magazines. At one point he was the highest paid photographer in New New York
His later pictures featured female nudes with patterns of light on their skin.
His photographic works are represented in Europe by Michael Hoppen Photography (London) and in the United States by Bonni Benrubi (New York) and Duncan Miller Gallery (Santa Monica). He was also an award winning sculptor working in Bronze, a painter and a writer