Background
Francis Bruguière was born in 1879 in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Francis Bruguière
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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.
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PUBLICATIONS Monograph: Bruguière: His Photographs and His Life, James L. Enyeart, 1977. Books: Few Are Chosen, w/Oswell Blakeston, 1932; Beyond This Point, w/Lane Sieveking, 1929 (Duckworth, London); A Project for the Theatrical Presentation of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Norman Bel Geddes, foreword by Max Reinhardt, 1924; San Francisco, 1918; The Evanescent City, George Sterling, 1916.Anthology: The Photograph Collector’s Guide, Lee D. Witkin & Barbara London, 1979; Photography Rediscovered, David Travis & Anne Kennedy, 1979; The Magic Image, Cecil Beaton & Gail Buckland, 1975.
Membership
A member of Photo-Secession (1905) and German Secession (1928).
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Career
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1937