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16-455: Among the founding members were Olympe Aguado , Hippolyte Bayard , Alexandre Edmond Becquerel , Eugène Durieu , Edmond Fierlants , Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros , Gustave Le Gray and Henri Victor Regnault . Henri Victor Regnault was the first president. Louise Leghait was the first woman member. The Société française de photographie, founded on 15 November 1854, was based on the short-lived Société héliographique (1851) but differed in that it

32-601: A penchant for experimenting with new photographic processes, and thus produced photographs using numerous different mediums. Surviving Aguado daguerreotypes include Intérieur d'un hôtel particulier , which depicts the interior of a large house. Salt paper prints by Aguado include Still Life with Garden Equipment (1855) and Study of Trees, Bois de Boulogne (1855). He initially preferred collodion on glass for portraits, but later switched to albumen prints . No known examples of Aguado's enlargement experiments have survived. Some of Aguado's most interesting images consist of

48-503: A programme and there were regular bulletins. For the remainder of the 19th century, the association was exclusively concerned with improvements to photography. There were regular exhibitions of the members' images, as well as conferences and presentations addressing new techniques, their artistic potential and the latest innovations. The SFP considered itself both an academy of photography and a library of archives. The photographs exhibited were properly archived, together with many comments from

64-409: A series of staged family portraits, or "living pictures," taken in the 1860s as an apparent critique of Second Empire nobility. The most well-known of these include Admiration , which depicts several people with their backs turned to the camera admiring a painting, and La Lecture , which depicts a man reading to a bored audience (some of whom are falling asleep). Aguado's photographs are included in

80-502: Is also a specialist library with 8,000 books and over 650 journals. The first president of the SFP was Henri Victor Regnault . Its current president is Paul-Louis Roubert , an art historian specializing in photography who has actively contributed to the association in recent years. The list of presidents and presidents of honour, published by the association is as follows: Among the SFP's founding members were: This article draws heavily on

96-457: The Place Vendôme , he initially worked with daguerreotypes , but by the early 1850s, was already experimenting with other photographic processes, namely with negative paper and collodion on glass. In 1854, he and Edouard Delessert developed the carte-de-visite printing method as a way to add portraits to visiting cards (the process was patented by Eugène Disderi later that year). Later in

112-534: The French Misplaced Pages article with the same title . Olympe Aguado Count Olympe-Clemente-Alexandre-Auguste Aguado (3 February 1827 – 25 October 1894) was a Franco-Spanish photographer and socialite, active primarily in the 1850s and 1860s. One of several early photographers who learned the practice from Gustave Le Gray , Aguado pioneered a number of photographic processes, including carte de visite photographs and photographic enlargement processes. He

128-729: The collections of the Getty Museum , the Musée d'Orsay , the French Photographic Society, and the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art . Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir ( Spanish : Marqués de las Marismas del Guadalquivir ) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain , granted in 1829 by Ferdinand VII to Alejandro María Aguado , an important merchant banker. At

144-552: The decade, he experimented with enlargement processes. Like Le Gray, Aguado taught photography to a number of his friends, among them Camille Silvy . Aguado was a member of the early French photographic organization, the Société héliographique, in the early 1850s. In 1854, he was a founding member the Société héliographique's more inclusive successor, the French Photographic Society ( Société française de photographie ). This organization would prove influential in subsequent decades in

160-533: The development and promotion of photography in France. Aguado frequently served as a judge for the Society's exhibitions during the 1850s and 1860s. Aguado was a frequent figure at the court of Emperor Napoleon III , and photographed both the emperor and his wife, Eugénie . Aguado's photographs during this period included a number of staged portraits that poked fun at the mores and habits of Second Empire nobility. By

176-539: The end of the 1860s, Aguado had largely lost interest in photography, and produced few photographs in subsequent decades. He died in Compeigne in 1894. Olympe's younger brother, Onésipe (1830–1893), was also a photographer, and the two collaborated on a number of projects. A nephew of Olympe Aguado, Henry Tenre, was a noted early-20th-century painter. Most of Aguado's photographs consist of landscapes (especially trees, rivers, and pastoral scenes) and portraits. He had

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192-494: The members. From the beginning of the 20th century, the SFP set itself the task of safeguarding historic works. Today it acts as a research centre on the history and development of photography. Since 1997, it has published the twice-yearly journal Études photographiques with articles on prominent photographers and on the history of photography. The association has a valuable historic collection consisting of some 10,000 images and 50,000 negatives (including 5,000 autochromes . There

208-431: The wealthiest bankers in France. In the 1820s and 1830s, he negotiated a series of loans that saved Spain from bankruptcy, and King Ferdinand VII of Spain conferred on him the title of Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir . Upon his death, his sons, including Olympe, inherited a considerable fortune. In the late 1840s, Aguado learned photography from pioneering French photographer Gustave Le Gray. From his studio on

224-509: Was also a founding member of the influential French Photographic Society in 1854. Aguado was born in Paris in 1827, the second son of the 1st Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir (1784–1842) and Maria de Carmen Vidoire Moreno. His father had been a supporter of Joseph Bonaparte during the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Following the war, he went into exile in Paris, and rose to become one of

240-435: Was less elitist and more forward-looking. Some accounts mistakenly link the two organizations more closely, referring simply to a change in the name with a view to giving the SFP the status of the world's oldest photography organization. A careful analysis of the Société héliographique describes in detail how the initial enthusiasm for the organization quickly disappeared resulting in the discontinuation of its activities. The SFP

256-470: Was thus established without any formal connection to the Société héliographique. The objectives of the SFP were therefore far more commercially oriented and more concerned with future developments, like the Académie des sciences . Its members — ambitious amateurs, artists, businessmen and scientists — had regular meetings at an established venue, with a written agenda. The objectives were published in

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