115th years of François Kollar

115th years of #FrançoisKollar, was a #Hungarian #commercialphotographer. In 1923 he moved to #Paris, where he worked as a studio manager for the #printingcompany #Draeger. At age 24 he became a #professionalphotographer, setting up his own studio in 1930.


Kollar employed many of the new vision #photographic techniques and found #commercial work with several #fashionmagazines, as well as #advertising #agencies.





Throughout his photographic career, he was drawn to industrial subjects. Kollar often photographed people in their roles in the production process. Likely, he was influenced by his first jobs working on the railways and as a lathe operator in a #carfactory.     




(8 October 1909 – 3 July 1979)

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