Emmanuel Sougez

Sougez still life, c. 1926-28

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

  1. 1 2 3 "Sougez Emmanuel (1889-1972)". Encyclopædia Universalis. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Emmanuel Sougez (1889—1972)". Oxford Index. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/Sougez,+Emmanuel
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