Philippe Pottier (photographer)

This article is about the photographer. For the footballer, see Philippe Pottier (footballer).

Philippe Pottier (1905 – 1991) was a French photographer, who primarily produced fashion photography.[1] Pottier is an important figure in the development of humanist photography.

Pottier was born in 1905 to René Maurice and Marie-Thérèse. His father and uncle were owners of the Aux Trois Quartiers department store, inherited from their father.[2][3] René and Marie-Thérèse rented their apartment to Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer in 1927.[2] Pottier became a member of the Shakespere and Company lending library of Sylvia Beach in 1926.[2]

Pottier began his career as a photographer in 1934,[4] he was a founding member of the influential Le Rectangle photography association (1936 to 1946).[5] Pottier also joined the associations successor Le Groupe des XV (1946 to 1957) and exhibited annually with both associations.[6] In the early 1940s he worked for Silhouettes.[7] Then joining Elle, leaving the publication in the late 1940s after they refused his request to work as an editor.[8] Pottier then joined L'Officiel as a fashion editor and photographer, working exclusively for the magazine.[8][9] Part of Pottier's archive from 1948 to 1963 was digitised for the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2015.[10]

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ "Philippe Pottier". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Philippe Pottier". Shakespeare and Company Project. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Aux Trois Quartiers". Numistoria. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  4. ^ "Philippe Pottier". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  5. ^ Sichel, Kim (17 March 2020). Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France. Yale University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780300246186. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  6. ^ Clark, Catherine Eleanor (6 September 2018). Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970. Oxford University Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780190681647. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Silhouettes". Palais Galliera. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  8. ^ a b Remaury, Bruno (31 May 1996). Dictionnaire de la mode au XXe siècle [Dictionary of 20th Century Fashion] (in French). Editions du Regard. p. 456. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Pottier, Philippe (1905-1991)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  10. ^ Jacquot, Olivier (5 June 2017). "Figurations du patrimoine dans la photographie de mode : Philippe Pottier et les frères Séeberger 2ème gén". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  11. ^ Exposition internationale 1937 (1937). Exposition internationale des arts et des techniques dans la vie moderne. Paris, 1937: Vol I (2e édition) Liste des exposants, Catalogue général officiel. Vol. I (2 ed.). Paris: M. Déchaux.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Auradon, J. M. (5 May 1946). "The Art Salon at the XVII Photo Exhibition". Le Photographe. Société Photovision (Paris).
  13. ^ "Exposition d'Art par Le "Groupe Des XV"". Le Photographe. Société Photovision (Paris). 20 May 1946.
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