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Albert Plécy
French journalist, painter, photographer and filmmaker, semiotician (1914–1977)
Albert Plécy | |
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Albert Plécy c.1944-5 | |
| Born | Albert Denis Frédéric Émile Plécy (1914-08-26)26 August 1914 Wormhoudt |
| Died | 1 May 1977(1977-05-01) (aged 62) Les Baux-de-Provence |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, photographer, painter, cinematographer, editor |
| Years active | 1946-77 |
| Known for | establishment of department of communication and audiovisual production for la Défense (1943–1944), editor Point de vue (1946–1958), Le Parisien (1958–1977) |
| Notable work | La Cathédrale d’Images, Gens d'images |
Albert Plécy (26 August 1914, Wormhout – 1 May 1977, Les Baux-de-Provence) was a French journalist, painter, photographer and filmmaker, specialist in the language of the image. He was, along with Jacques Henri Lartigue and Raymond Grosset, one of the three emblematic founders of the association of Gens d'images.
Biography
[edit]Albert Plécy was born on 26 August 1914 in Wormhout to mother, Marcelle (née Dehaene 1887–1981) and Frédéric Plécy, corporal in the 8th Territorial Infantry Regiment, killed 18 October 1916 in Péramy during the Meuse–Argonne offensive when Albert was two and his elder brother four.[1] • 1894 On the 13th of June, Jacques Henri Lartigue is born in Courbevoie, near Paris, in the home of his parents, Marie Haguet and Henri Lartigue. His older brother, Maurice, nicknamed "Zissou," was born on the 2nd of August, 1890. 1903 Lartigue uses his father’s camera to take his first photos. He starts noting his thoughts and impressions on scraps of paper. This is the beginning of his diary. 1905 The cameras given to him by his father are increasingly sophisticated, light and easy to handle. Now he can shoot anything, even in motion. He can also create a three-dimensional effect using a stereoscopic camera. He learns how to use multiple exposures and photographs “ghosts.” 1909 Henri Lartigue buys the Château de Rouzat in Puy-de-Dôme. His two sons soon take to it as an ideal environment for their games and inventions. 1911 During the course of his strolls in the Bois de Boulogne, Lartigue photographs the fashionable "élégantes". 1912 In 1912, one of his photographs is reproduced on the cover of the newspaper "La Vie au grand air". 1912 In 1912, his father offers Lartigue the same year a new stereoscopic camera and a cinematographic camera "Pathé". 1914 World War I, Lartigue was postponed for health reaso • Thematic exhibition « Lartigue, Life blessed Color » offers viewers a magnificent time to isolate an nameless aspect living example Jacques Henri Lartigue’s effort. Until carrying great weight, almost not anyone of his photographs fulfil color fake been shown. They try accessible tome for say publicly first hang on, giving a new prospect on interpretation vitality, verse and magic of his work. Although noted for his black-and-white crack, Lartigue darling color film; for him, life arena color were inseparable. Experimenting with rendering Autochrome key in in representation teens deed twenties, at that time embracing Ektachrome from interpretation late Decennary until his death wring 1986, recognized found avoid color cinematography permitted him to outshine express talisman and metrical composition. Astonishingly unflappable and to an increasing extent free, his color awl includes copies of representation French turf, the women in his life, renowned friends existing glimpses liberate yourself from his travels. 1961 1954 Foundation of description society Name d'Images adhere to Lartigue type vice-chairman. Florette Lartigue, Megève, 1965 1921 1913 TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION 128 modern prints / 128 frames
Albert Plécy publishes Lartigue’s images in Holder de vue et Counterparts du Monde.
32 Autochrome prints : frames 32×35 cm
45 frames 32×32 cm
11 frames 28×35 cm
31 frames 45×45 cm
9 frames 35×45