Emmanuel Sougez
Louis-Victor-Emmanuel Sougez (16 July 1889 - 24 August 1972) was a French photographer.
Sougez was born in Bordeaux, and enrolled at age 15 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, where he studied art, but soon abandoned that to concentrate on photography.[1] From 1905 to 1914, he travelled widely, inclluding Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[1]
After the First World War, became a freelance photographer, based in Paris.[2]
In 1926, Sougez founded the photographic department for the French weekly newspaper, L'Illustration, and promoted the use of colour photography.[1]
Sougez's work is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Sougez Emmanuel (1889-1972)". Encyclopædia Universalis. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ "Emmanuel Sougez (1889—1972)". Oxford Index. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/Sougez,+Emmanuel
External links
Media related to Emmanuel Sougez at Wikimedia Commons- Sougez images at Luminous-Lint
