Brothers Bison

The brothers Bison , Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814 - 1876, known as “elder Bison”) and Auguste-Rosalie Bison (1826 - 1900, known as “young Bison”), are two famous pioneers of French photography .

Biographical elements

As well as Felix Nadar, Edouard Baldus or Gustave Gray, they were the first to try to be detached from the techniques imposed by the use of the Daguerréotype, in particular by giving up the photographic installation with the profit of the instantaneous one. Credits during the “gilded age” of the photographic patronage, between 1847 and 1855, the Bisson brothers base their originality on the use of very great pullings (to 100 X 81 cm) and on the commercial practical application their techniques. Indeed, of 1852 to 1863, the house Bisson brothers street Garancière counts up to thirty employee and gains an international repute by the execution of very varied orders.

Members of the French company of photography, the Bisson brothers expose to it regularly between 1854 and 1863. In addition, they travel much, since nearly a third of their many stereotypes relate to subjects in-outside French territory. After the repurchase of their house in 1864 by Emile Claim, Louis-Auguste and Auguste-Rosalie continue then separate photographic roads. The recognition was then that of curiosity, as when they accommodate street Garancière of official French, but it will be necessary to wait more than one century so that in the foregrounds their pullings return and that their is really recognized a decisive artistic value.

The Bisson brothers remain especially known for their series of photographs on the set of themes of the Massif of Mont Blanc, ordered by Napoleon III. They realized besides by twice the rise of the Mont Blanc and brought back the first photographs of Alpinisme. Young bison, in particular, multiplied the catches of sight of snow-covered slopes and glaciers, in “its” mountains. It thus wished to seize changing it in a single subject - an innovative attitude at the time.

One owes with Louis-Auguste Bisson the most known portrait of Honore de Balzac 1842.

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