PARIS-PHOTO 2009
19 -22 November 2009
Carrousel du Louvre-Salle Soufflot - Stand E36
last minute!
Gallery Light Rose unveils an original portrait by Hippolyte Bayard, "the inventor of the photographic image" and accompany it with an apple marked with a photographic print!
the occasion of the edition of Paris-Photo 2009, Galerie Lumière des Roses presents an original portrait of Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887), "the inventor of the photographic image "*. This is a picture of a business card size, representing a group posing on the porch of a house. In the features of the man in the hat, it is recognized Hippolyte Bayard, photographed several years after the self-portrait he painted around 1845 on the daguerreotype, in the same place in his house at Batignolles. In this group portrait one might think family (but nothing is known about the privacy of the photographer), it is also recognized in the upper left, a model that Hippolyte Bayard photographed repeatedly under the title of Little girl with the bouquet. The girl grew up but his eyes sad, probably the origin of his nickname "the sulky, was unchanged. This young woman is the subject of a second photograph, produced the same place and at the same time.
Photographer unknown. Hippolyte Bayard
front porch of his house at Batignolles in 1860.
Hippolyte Bayard - Self Portrait c. 1845 Daguerreotype
Left: Hippolyte Bayard "Little pouting "about 1845
Right: Photographer unknown, circa 1860.
Record horticultural use of the amateur photographer
tribute to Hippolyte Bayard
If we believe the story of photography in 1868 narrated by Louis Figuier in "The Wonders of Science", it is said that originally his research on photography, Hippolyte Bayard was inspired by a history of fisheries. His father, justice in the provinces, cultivated peaches in his garden and was accustomed to offer our friends each year a basket of fruit marked with his seal. For this, the approach of fruit maturity but before they only display a rosy hue, he cut his initials in the paper and applied on peaches, then left to the sun. Off the paper, the initials stood out in white on a red background. Father would hit the hobby in mind that the young Hippolytus, for child's play, would have made himself the experience of the action of sunlight on strips of colored paper.
Light Rose Gallery is based in Montreuil, a city once renowned for its fruit production and in particular its walls to fisheries, it has pleased our turn to try another horticultural refinement which is marking photographic fruit, invented by Louis Aubin in 1898.
History of Photography - Imaging Epinal
Take one apple (peaches no longer in season in November). Wrap first fruit in bags that subtract light. When the fruit is mature, remove the bag and apply the paper to reproduce the photograph chosen negative. When the fruit accused of beautiful purple color, remove the stencil to reveal photography. Appears the famous Self-Portrait in Bayard drowned (1840) which genius continues to shine under the autumn sun.
Philippe and Marion Jacquier
Self-portrait of Bayard drowned. 1840
The "embedded" revealed by the autumn sun - 2009 Note: To learn more about Hippolyte Bayard, we encourage the reading of subtle test entitled * Michel Frizot "Bayard in his garden" - this title has reason to be much more serious than the digression Horticultural above.
* Hippolyte Bayard, birth of the photographic image - Ed Three pebbles, 1986
Thanks to Pierre-Marc Richard for his infallible eye, Philip Schuler, secretary general of the SRHM * (which has succeeded to revive the ancestral knowledge of photographic marking) and producer Bernard Guicheteau that daily cruises the aisles of his beautiful orchard Gressy to monitor the first revelations photographic results.
Philip Schuler SRHM Regional Society of Horticulture Montreuil
contact@srhm.fr
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bernard.guicheteau @ wanadoo.fr
