Société française de photographie
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The Société française de photographie (French Photographic Society) is an association, founded in 1854, devoted to the history of photography
History of photography
The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.- Etymology :The word photography derives from the Greek words phōs light, and gráphein, to write...

. It has a large collection of photographs and old cameras. The first president was Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s....

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History

The Société française de photographie (below, SFP), founded on 15 November 1854, was based on the short-lived Société héliographique (1851) but differed in that it 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 enthusiam for the organization quickly disappeared resulting in the discontinuation of its activities. The SFP 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 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 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 is also a specialist library with 8,000 books and over 650 journals.

The first president of the SFP was Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s....

. Its current president is Paul-Louis Roubert
Paul-Louis Roubert
Paul-Louis Roubert is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine, senior lecturer in photography at Paris 8 University and, since December 2010, president of the Société française de photographie....

, an art historian specializing in photography who has actively contributed to the association in recent years.

List of presidents

The list of presidents and presidents of honour, published by the association is as follows:

Presidents

  • Eugène Durieu (1855)
  • Antoine Jérôme Balard
    Antoine Jérôme Balard
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     (1858)
  • Eugène Péligot
    Eugène-Melchior Péligot
    Eugène-Melchior Péligot , also known as Eugène Péligot, was a French chemist who isolated the first sample of uranium metal in 1841....

     (1868)
  • Louis-Alphonse Davanne (1876)
  • Hippolyte Sebert (1901)
  • Léon Gaumont
    Léon Gaumont
    Léon Gaumont was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry....

     (1930)
  • Léopold Lobel (1933)
  • Edouard Belin
    Édouard Belin
    Édouard Belin was born in Vesoul, Haute-Saône on March 5, 1876, and died on March 4, 1963 in Territet .He is the inventor in 1907 of a phototelegraphic apparatus called the Bélinographe, a system able to send remote photographs, via telephone and telegraphic networks...

     (1937)
  • Georges Moreau (1953)
  • Marcel Abribat (1955)
  • Robert Auvillain (1957)
  • Fernand Obaton (1969)
  • Robert Mauge (1971)
  • Jean Prissette (1975)
  • Alain Jeanne-Michaud (1993)
  • Michel Poivert
    Michel Poivert
    Michel Poivert is professor of the history of contemporary art and photography at the Sorbonne. He has taken a special interest in pictorialism, the subject of his doctorate thesis...

     (1995)
  • Paul-Louis Roubert
    Paul-Louis Roubert
    Paul-Louis Roubert is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine, senior lecturer in photography at Paris 8 University and, since December 2010, president of the Société française de photographie....

     (2010)

Presidents of honour

  • Henri Victor Regnault
    Henri Victor Regnault
    Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s....

     (1855)
  • Jules Janssen (1891)
  • Étienne-Jules Marey
    Étienne-Jules Marey
    Étienne-Jules Marey was a French scientist and chronophotographer.His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography...

     (1894)
  • Gabriel Lippmann
    Gabriel Lippmann
    Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference....

     (1897)
  • Jules Janssen (1900)
  • Aimé Laussedat (1903)
  • Jules Violle
    Jules Violle
    Jules Louis Gabriel Violle was a French physicist and inventor.He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equal to the light emitted by 1 cm² of platinum at its melting point...

     (1906)
  • Jules Carpentier
    Jules Carpentier
    Jules Carpentier was a French engineer and inventor.Jules Carpentier was a student at the French École polytechnique.He bought the Ruhmkorff workshops in Paris when Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff died and made it a successful business for building electrical and magnetical devices. From 1890, he...

     (1909)
  • Henri Deslandres (1912)
  • Prince Roland Bonaparte
    Roland Bonaparte
    Roland Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French prince and president of the Société de Géographie from 1910 until his death.-Biography:...

     (1920)
  • Louis Lumière (1923)
  • Hippolyte Sebert (1926)
  • Paul Heilbronner (1929)
  • Georges Perrier (1932)
  • Charles Fabry
    Charles Fabry
    Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry FMRS was a French physicist.-Life:Fabry graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and received his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1892, for his work on interference fringes, which established him as an authority in the field of optics and...

     (1935)
  • Armand de Gramont (1938)
  • Fernand Baldet
    Fernand Baldet
    Fernand Baldet was a French astronomer.He worked with Count Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel observing Mars from the newly built observatory on Pic du Midi in 1909...

     (1947)
  • Georges Poivilliers (1949)
  • Edouard Belin
    Édouard Belin
    Édouard Belin was born in Vesoul, Haute-Saône on March 5, 1876, and died on March 4, 1963 in Territet .He is the inventor in 1907 of a phototelegraphic apparatus called the Bélinographe, a system able to send remote photographs, via telephone and telegraphic networks...

     (1952)
  • Georges Poivilliers (1956)
  • Marcel Abribat (1958)
  • Albert Arnulf (1965)
  • Jean-Jacques Trillat (1971–1987)

Founding members

Among the SFP's founding members were:
  • Olympe Aguado
  • Félix Avril
  • Hippolyte Bayard
    Hippolyte Bayard
    -Late career:Despite his initial hardships in photography, Bayard continued to be a productive member of the photographic society. He was a founding member of the French Society of Photography...

  • Edmond Becquerel
    A. E. Becquerel
    Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel , known as Edmond Becquerel, was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He is credited with the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of...

  • Louis-Auguste Bisson
    Louis-Auguste Bisson
    Louis-Auguste Bisson was a 19th-century French photographer.Bisson opened a photographic studio in early 1841. Soon after, his brother Auguste-Rosalie Bisson entered into partnership with him. Their studio was in the La Madeleine in Paris, and they became famous as the Bisson Brothers.In 1860...

  • Auguste-Rosalie Bisson
    Auguste-Rosalie Bisson
    Auguste-Rosalie Bisson was a French photographer, active from 1841 to the year of his death, 1900. He was born and died in Paris and was the son of the heraldic painter, Louis-François Bisson and the brother of Louis-Auguste Bisson....

  • Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
    Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
    Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard was a French cloth merchant by trade, but in the 1840s became a student of photography. He studied the Calotype process, and in 1847 became the first person to publish the process in France...

  • Farnham Maxwell-Lyte
    Farnham Maxwell-Lyte
    Farnham Maxwell-Lyte was a chemist and the pioneer of a number of techniques in photographic processing...

  • Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier
  • Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
    Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
    Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer.Vallou de Villeneuve studied with Jean-François Millet, and started his career at the Salon of 1814, exposing images depicting daily life, mode, regional costumes and nude photographs.He moved to Paris in 1850,...


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