Philippe Pottier (photographer)
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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]
