Francis Brugier ( Eng. Francis Joseph Bruguière ; October 15, 1879 , San Francisco - May 8, 1945 , Middleton Cheney, England ) - American artist , director - improviser and photographer - expressionist [1] [2] .
| Francis Brugge | |
|---|---|
| English Francis Joseph Bruguière | |
 Light abstraction , 1925 | |
| Date of Birth | November 15, 1879 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco |
| Date of death | May 8, 1945 (aged 65) |
| Place of death | Middleton Cheney , England |
| Nationality | USA |
| Genre | experimental photo |
| Style | expressionism |
Family
Francis Brugge was born in San Francisco , California , into a wealthy family of banker Emile Antoine Brugge (1849-1900) and Josephine Frederick (Sater) Brugier (1843-1915). He was the youngest of four sons and received home education. His brothers were the artist and physician Peder Sater Bruegiere (1874-1967), Emil Antoine Brugure, Jr. (1877-1935) and Louis Suther Brugiere (1882-1954), who married the rich heiress Margaret Post Van Alen. He was also the grandson of banker Peder Suther. His mother died in 1915, drowning along with SS British airliner, which was pierced by a German submarine [3] .
Creativity
In 1905, having studied painting in Europe, Brugge met with the photographer and promoter of contemporary art Alfred Stieglitz (who accepted him as a researcher and secretary). Brugge created a studio in San Francisco, where he was engaged in fine art and photography. His cityscapes of this period, created after the earthquake and fire (some of them were reproduced in a book called San Francisco (1918), became famous. He co-authored a photo exhibition of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, nine of his photographs were included in George Sterling's book City of the Dead (George Sterling. The Evanescent City , 1916).
In 1918, after the decline in marital status, Brugge moved to New York, where he made his living as a photograph for Vanity Fair , Vogue and Harper's Bazaar . Soon he was appointed the official photographer of the New York Theater Guild. In this role, he photographed the actress of the British scene Rosalinda Fuller, who debuted in the play What's in a Name? (1920) - later she collaborated with the photographer for the rest of her life.
Cinema
Starting his career as an artist, Brugge, as a photographer, experimented with double exposure, solarization, original film processing processes, photograms , the reaction of various films to various shutter speeds, etc., but for a long time only friends knew about these experiments. In the mid-1920s, he planned to make a film called The Way (The Way, 1929), depicting different stages of a person's life. For this serious project, Brugge turned to a fashionable Berlin actor - improviser Sebastian Droste and actress Rosalind Fuller, with whom he had already worked. To get financing, Brugge took photos of the scenes he planned, but he did not go to the shooting itself due to the sudden death of the actor. Therefore, we only had still images that indicate that the film continued the expressionist tradition inherent in the entire work of Sebastian Droste.
In 1927, he moved to London , where Brugge created the first British abstract film Light Rhythms with Oswell Blackstone . For a long time it was believed that the picture was lost, but now it is restored and available for viewing. During World War II, Brugge returned to painting [4] [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Del Zogg. Francis Bruguière (link unavailable) . George Eastman House (August 2000). Date accessed August 20, 2015. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Del Zogg. The Photographs of Francis J. Bruguiere . George Eastman House (February 8, 2013). Date accessed August 20, 2015.
- ↑ Biography - Peder Bruguiere . askart.com. Date accessed August 20, 2015.
- ↑ Francis Bruguière, American Photographer & Author . The J. Paul Getty Museum. Date accessed August 20, 2015.
- ↑ Jill Alikas St. Thomas. Francis Bruguière (American, 1879-1945) (Unavailable link) . Museum of New Mexico. Date accessed August 20, 2015. Archived March 5, 2016.
Other sources
- Enyeart, James (1977) Bruguière: His Photographs and His Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)