Studio couch, 1956 (light and shadow)© Fernand Fonssagrives Silver Gelatin Print 11 x 14”
The Eye, c.1954© Fernand Fonssagrives Silver Gelatin Print 28 x 32 cm
Fernand Fonssagrives met his wife Lisa Bernstone at dance school in Paris. By 1936 Lisa’s career as a model escalated and she became the first recognizable ‘model’ working for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Their unique partnership produced a memorable series of pictures, including Fernand’s nude work of Lisa for which he is best known and most respected. Eileen Ford said of Fonssagrives: “I wish for Xmas I could give one of Fernand’s prints to every photographer who works with our models. If they lived with these pictures, they could learn how it should be done.”
