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... a forgotten master of 20th century photography. Being able to re-discover the once lost images of Fernand Fonssagrives feels as exhilarating as finding a Monet for $20 at a yard sale (not that this has ever happened to us). Not a single monograph on his work is available on Amazon. And there has not even been a single solo exhibition on his work in the US or France during the last 50 years. ....
Fernand Fonssagrives was born to a sculptor father and a musician mother in Paris. Fernand Fonssagrives, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn were once considered to be the holy trinity of New York photographers. For Fernand Fonssagrives, the period between 1936 and 1945 was the most productive and memorable, for that perfect moment in time, the stars aligned for Fernand Fonssagrives and he became the highest paid photographer. His images were prominently featured in Vogue, Hapers and Town & Country. His erotic grainy black and white photographs featured the natural beauty of the free-flowing female form. Without being too revealing, Fernand Fonssagrives's artistic images were all done in good taste, leaving plenty for the imagination.
Fernand Fonssagrives was at one time the leading photographer of the 1930s and 1940s but completely vanished from the radar during the late 1950s. He was once married to one of the world's most beautiful models, Lisa (Bernstone) Fonssagrives. How this remarkable photographer ceased to exist remains a great mystery.
...What happened to Fernand in the late 1950s is still unclear. What we do know is that Fernand Fonssagrives lived the greater part of his later years as a recluse in Little Rock, Arkansas where he passed away at the age of 93. Read complete article at http://www.moderndesign.org/2012/04/fernand-fonssagrives.html undefined