Francis Bruguière

Nationality

American

Lifetime

1879-1945

Biography

Francis Bruguière American, 1879-1945 Born into a wealthy San Francisco banking family, Francis Bruguière studied painting in Europe. He developed an interest in photography after meeting Alfred Stieglitz and Frank Eugene during a 1905 trip to New York, where he remained to study with Eugene and became a member of the Photo-Secession. In 1906 Bruguière returned to San Francisco and opened a photography studio. Thirteen years later he was back in New York to begin work as a commercial photographer for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and the Theatre Guild. During the 1920s Bruguière experimented with "light abstractions" -- images filled with abstract patterns of light and shade made from dramatically lit cut-paper designs. In 1929 his photographs were included in the Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart, a show featuring the work of the most experimental and progressive photographers. The following year he collaborated with Oswell Blakeston, a writer and film critic, to produce an abstract film, Light Rhythms. Moving to England in 1928, Bruguière worked in advertising and continued his photographic experiments with light and multiple exposures. He retired from photography in 1940. M.M.

Artworks

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Camera Work

A. Horsley Hinton

Alfred Stieglitz

Alice M. Boughton

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Anne W. Brigman

Arthur Allen Lewis

Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore

Baron Adolph de Meyer

C. Yarnall Abbott

Clarence H. White

David Octavius Hill

E.M. Bane

Edward Steichen

Ema Spencer

Eva Watson-Schutze

F. Benedict Herzog

Francis Bruguière

Frank Eugene

Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Pratt

George Davison

George Bernard Shaw

George H. Seeley

Gertrude Käsebier

Guido Rey

Hans Watzek

Harold Mortimer-Lamb

Harry Rubincam

Heinrich Kuehn

Herbert G. French

Hugo Henneberg

J. Craig Annan

John Francis Strauss

Joseph T. Keiley

Julia Margaret Cameron

Karl F. Struss

Marshall R. Kernochan

Oskar Hofmeister

Paul Strand

Paul B. Haviland

Prescott Adamson

René Le Bègue

Robert Adamson

Robert Demachy

Sarah C. Sears

Theodor Hofmeister

W.W. Renwick

William B. Dyer

William B. Post

William E. Wilmerding