FRANCIS BRUGUIÈRE (1879-1945)

Details
FRANCIS BRUGUIÈRE (1879-1945)

2nd Movement, 3C1 from Light Rhythms

Gelatin silver print. 1930. Title and credit in pencil on the verso. 8¾ x 11in. Framed.
Literature
Departures: Photography 1924-1989, p. 22, pl. 6.; Departures: Photography 1923-1990, p. 21; and Bruguière, pp. 88 and 85.
Exhibited
Departures: Photography 1924-1989: Hirschl & Adler Modern, November 2-December 2, 1989; Departures: Photography 1923-1990: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, September 12-October 20, 1991; Denver Art Museum, January 25-March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, April 9-May 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5-August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design, September 5-October 11, 1992; and Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., January 5-February 21, 1993.

Lot Essay

Mr. Bruguière's film, Light Rhythms...is a departure from previous film practice in that it receives its animation from the movement of light on static forms, and not from the movement of form in static light. As in Bruguière's still photography, the light acquires significantly from its impact with the varied planes of forms. Form here reveals the light and the substance and reason of the film lies in the rhythmic pattern of this changing revelation. The film involved approximately 30 different forms which Bruguière photographed as still images, with careful sequencing, the very same images were arranged in (text form) to give an amazingly accurate impression of the film. (citing p.85).