Background
Francis Bruguière was born in 1879 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Francis Bruguière was born in 1879 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Working mainly in silver prints but also using gum-bichromate and autochrome, Bruguière was one of the first photographers to explore extensively abstract photographic imagery. He produced purely abstract images by lighting cut paper; be also used solarization and solargrams. He also photographed architecture and stage actors.
A member of Photo-Secession (1905) and German Secession (1928).