Auguste-Rosalie Bisson

Auguste- Rosalie Bisson ( born May 1, 1826 in Paris, France, † April 22, 1900 ) was a French photographer and photographic pioneer.

Life and work

Auguste- Rosalie Bisson was the son of Heraldry painter Louis- François Bisson (1795-1865) and the younger brother of Louis-Auguste Bisson photographer ( 1814-1876 ).

Auguste- Rosalie Bisson learned the art of the daguerreotype and photography from his father and his older brother. The father and Auguste- Rosalie Bisson opened a photo studio in 1841, which soon became known throughout Paris. Auguste- Rosalie rose soon after, in a partnership for the photo studio with Louis -Auguste, and the two became as brothers Bisson ( " Bisson Frères " ) famous.

Auguste- Rosalie Bisson was active as a photographer from 1841 until the year of his death in 1900. He was, along with his brother, the first person who took 1861 pictures from the summit of Mont Blanc in the summer.

On the occasion of the inauguration of the Suez Canal financed the specialized stereo copies Parisian family Léon Lévy Bisson & the "journey on the Nile ", of which around 300 shots were reproduced.

In 1977 photographs were shown of two brothers at documenta 6 in Kassel in the famous photography department, which was the context of contemporary art in the context of " 150 years of photography."

Literature and sources

• Catalog for Documenta 6: Volume 1: painting, sculpture / Environment, Performance; Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video; Volume 3: drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00- X
• Honnef, Klaus: 150 Years of Photography ( Advanced special issue of Art Forum International: 150 Years of Photography III / Photography at documenta 6, Volume 22 ); Mainz, Frankfurt am Main ( Zweitausendeins ) 1977
• Hannavy, John ( ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth - Century Photography; New York 2005 ISBN 978-0415972352