Francis Bruguière
 Francis Bruguière | |
| Born |
October 15, 1879 San Francisco, US |
|---|---|
| Died |
May 8, 1945 (aged 65) London, UK |
Francis Joseph Bruguière (1879-1945) was an American-born photographer. He also worked as a director, producer, painter, and sculptor.
Life and work
However, he remained known as a photographer. His pictures from the earthquake of San Francisco have today historic character. Many of his other pictures are innovative and make him one of the pioneers of modern photographic art before the 1920s. As a child was very interested in art, music and poetry and travel with his parents in Europe. In 1905 he went to New York, where he first dealt with the photograph. He returned in 1906 back to San Francisco, where he founded his first photographic studio. He witnessed one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history, as on 18 April 1906, the earth shook and more than 3,000 people died. This event impressed his life Despite the ruined city, he managed to study together with the photographer Frank Eugene. Alfred Stieglitz, enabled Bruguière to participate as a photographer at the photo sessions. In 1916 he illustrated the book of the American poet and friend George Sterling called The evenscent City with photographs from the Panama-Pacific Exhibition (1915). In 1919 he went to New York, where he again established its own photographic studio in the 16 West 49th Street and now finally working as a freelance photographer. He also made member official photos of the Theatre Guild of New York of firsts, actors, scenes, pieces that made him the leading theater photographers of the United States. He often photographed on Broadway and many well-known off-Broadway theaters. In New York he also worked for several major magazines as a photographer, like "Vanity Fair", "Harper's Bazaar", and "Vogue".
