page_title: Constant Puyo
section_title: Photographs
hierarchical_section_title: Constant Puyo / Works / Photographs
caption_attribution_description: Contant Puyo: Montmartre; published in Camera Work 16, 1906
context_page_description: Émile Joachim Constant Puyo was a French photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As the leading advocate of the Pictorialist movement in France, he championed the practice of photography as an artistic medium. For most of his career, Puyo was associated with the Photo Club of Paris, serving as its president from 1921 to 1926. His photographs appeared in numerous publications worldwide, and were exhibited at various expositions in the 1900s.
context_section_description: Puyo believed that for a photograph to be considered art, it must create a beauty independent of the subject, and thus believed art photographers should be more concerned with beauty rather than fact. He considered the manipulation of a photograph to be an expression of individuality, and believed that manipulation was necessary to eliminate the sense that the photograph was produced by an unemotional machine.
  Common themes in Puyo's photographs include landscapes, female figures in various poses, and various aspects of late 19th-century Parisian life.  He was greatly influenced by artistic movements of the day, especially Impressionism.   One of Puyo's better known works, Montmartre, was inspired by Edvard Munch's Rue Lafayette.  Art Nouveau patterns appear in many of Puyo's photographs of women.
  Puyo's work has been exhibited at museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Centre Atlantique de la Photographie in Brest.  A large number of Puyo's photographs are on display at the Morlaix Museum, founded by his father in the 1870s.
caption: Montmartre (1904)
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