caption relations death_date death_place birth_place image_size name birth_date image article_title education birth_name occupation
puyo , photographed by nadar tristan corbière -lrb- cousin -rrb- 06 october 1933 morlaix , france morlaix , france 175px constant puyo 12 november 1857 puyo par nadar.jpg constant puyo
 École polytechnique Émile joachim constant puyo soldier , photographer
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Émile joachim constant puyo -lrb- november 12 , 1857 -- october 6 , 1933 -rrb- 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 .
