Yvette Troispoux

Yvette Troispoux (Coulommiers June 1st, 1914 - Paris September 11th, 2007) is a French Photographe .

Biography

Member of the 30 X 40, the photographic club of Paris.

Officer of the Order of Arts and the Letters; it is Robert Doisneau which will give its medal to him, on March 5th, 1993, with the town hall of the VIII {{E}} district.

Being always present at the time of the photographic Varnishing S of exposure S with its Leica, it was called the “photographer of the photographers”. Robert Doisneau called it his “photocopine” and also wrote: “When it leaves its bag the Leica old man who saw so much of it, it is the sign that the festival starts. The faces slacken. ”

A homage had been paid to him at the time of the Rencontres of Arles in 2004.

Born on June 1st, 1914 in Coulommiers in Seine-et-Marne, Yvette Troispoux, autodidact, launches out in photography with its Kodak Pronto gained in July 1933, thanks to a contest of photography organized by the municipality: “I wanted to keep those which I liked”, she will say simply. Yvette had two loves: his/her young dead brother during the war and the Photography, which it practiced during its leisures. Among its first Portrait S of family, her Jean brother with the Station Montparnasse on October 12th, 1936, about which she spoke with much emotion. This stereotype represents the last time that Yvette will have seen her brother: “Ask me which is the photograph from which I will never separate and I will answer you, that which I took of Jean”. At this point in time it will continue to practice the photograph “as an amateur”, not to upset her parents, then will settle in Paris, where it will work like employee during forty years in the same company, Tréfimétaux.

In 1953, thanks to the French company of photography, she discovers the Club Photographic of Paris, known as the 30x40 where each Thursday, a professional comes to the meeting from impassioned. She photographs the photographers at the time of their visits with the “30x40”, then during varnishings or of the dinners. The recognition of the artistic world reaches him in 1971, with the Grand Prix of the Photographic Club of Paris. The day when it met Agathe Gaillard was the beginning of a friendship which lasted until the end. With each varnishing with the gallery of her friend, open in 1975, it benefitted from it to draw the portrait from the exposed photographer, from where his nickname of “photographer of the photographers”. Yvette based herself in crowd and before even as the subject recognized it, it started its apparatus. Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Edouard Boubat, Brassaï, Helmut Newton, and so much of others left immortaliser by Yvette: “I believe all to have photographed them, except Niépce, the inventor of the Photograph! ”.

It is only tardily, in 1982, during its first exposure to the Odéon-Photo gallery in Paris which the general public discovers monumental work, accomplished in catimini.

Yvette was a free electron, which during about fifty years, took photographs as a simple amateur without worrying about the commercial value. “It arrived with its Leica and two or three baskets, it was our mascot” and “If Yvette were not there, it is that the event was not important”, tells François Hébel, director of the Meetings of Arles. “Beautiful a p' tit end of woman, a latent modernity, an innocence full with maturity… It is very difficult to describe what could emanate from Yvette with words. It is perhaps not astonishing that she was artist. It fascine by its simplicity of its dires and the long reflection that there was behind. The life must be finally as simple as a stereotype, as an image and it is then with us to withdraw from it happiness, and the beauty, in all simplicity…” indicates Lauric Duvigneau, a friend of Yvette.

In addition to the portraits, Yvette Troispoux carried out many soft and nostalgic images of Paris and edges of the Seine. Its subjects of predilection were always the daily life of the men, the event, the landscape. It also carried out, for the pleasure, of the reports. It was always the testimony which interested it.

External bonds

Le Monde
Chronic cultural on Yvette Troispoux, France Inter, " Side culture" , a chronicle of Vincent Jose
Works and photographs of Yvette Troispoux
a friend of Yvette, article of Lauric Duvigneau
Homage of Christine Albanel, Minister for the Yvette Troispoux Culture - September 14th, 2007

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