Zeppelin
Léon
Gimpel
About this photograph :
Zeppelin
It is in 1904 that Gimpel meets the Lumière brothers and their invention: the autochrome. Imposing a long time for the exposure, its utilization is limited to static subjects. Gimpel takes hold of the procedure and modifies the commercialized light-sensitive plates, succeeding in realizing shots in colors. He so becomes the only photographer to succeed in reproducing colored scenes of life in la Belle Epoque. The shots of Parisian streets and most of all the illuminations of monuments of the capital become the reoccurring subjects of his works. In addition, the photographer exploited the bird's eye view to distinguish himself from other reporters and to attract the press.
Whether he photographs in black and white or in color, Gimpel has given a modern vision of the current events of his epoch making him a major photographer of the history of the 7th art.
If Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Eugène Atget are generally cited as emblematic figures of the photography of the la Belle Époque, Léon Gimpel should be added with them, artist from now on recognized for his just value.
About the artist :
Léon
Gimpel
1873-1948, FranceFrom City Hall to the Musée d’Orsay, he is without contest the photographer of the opening of this year. Because his autochromes constitute one of revelations of the exposition Paris en couleurs, here is the guest of honor of the photographic gallery of the Musée d’Orsay that consecrates to this grand experimenter his first retrospective.Collaborator for the journal l’Illustration, La Vie au grand air and La Vie illustrée Léon Gimpel realized numerous photo reports for the press. Follower of the autochrome and initiator of the movement to bring science to the general public he realized between 1897 and 1932 thousands of photographs. The recourse to light-sensitive plates only availed him to slip into oblivion.
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