130th years of Emmanuel Sougez

130th years of a #French #photographer #EmmanuelSougez. He 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. 



After the First World War, became a freelancephotographer, based in #Paris. There he formed the group #Rectangle which exhibited #modernphotography and with some of its members, after the war, helped establish its successor, Le Groupe des XV.



In 1926, Sougez founded the #photographic department for the French weekly #newspaper, #LIllustration, and promoted the use of #colourphotography.



(16 July 1889 - 24 August 1972)

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