Dornac
Dornac, Paul Marsan or Pol Marsan, pseudonyms of Paul François Arnold Cardon (6 January 1858 10 January 1941), was a French photographer.
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Dornac
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- Paul François Arnold Cardon.
- Born
- 1858. · Paris.
- Died
- 1941. · 14th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- photographer.
- Languages
- French.
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Dornac, Paul Marsan or Pol Marsan, pseudonyms of Paul François Arnold Cardon (6 January 1858 10 January 1941), was a French photographer.
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Born in Paris, Dornac was active since the 1880s, specializing in portraits of personalities photographed at home or at work. He is the author of a series of photographic portraits from 1887 to 1917 entitled Nos contemporains chez eux. Many of Dornac's portraits have been taken either directly or after wood engraving, in Le Monde illustré between 1890 and 1900. Dornac died in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on 10 January 1941 at age 83 and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (74th division).
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• Illustration — Alphonse Daudet. • Illustration — Pierre Janet. • Illustration — Auguste Rodin. • Illustration — Auguste Renoir. • Illustration — Émile Zola.
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- 1.« Dornac » sur data.bnf.fr.
- 2.Dornac. Paul Verlaine au café. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- 3.Elizabeth Emery. Verlaine en vitrine : la mise en scène d’un « poète maudit » pour Nos Contemporains chez eux. Société des études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes. 1-19 lire en. 2015.
- 4.Les représentations des universitaires bordelais et la temporalité de la figure du savant (1880-1960). Annales du Midi : revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale. 292. 2015 lire en.
- 5.Ece Zerman. "Nos contemporains (ottomans) chez eux". Circulation d’un modèle photographique entre Paris et Istanbul à la fin du s XIX. Photographica. Histoires-monde de la photographie. 98-115 . octobre 2021 titre.
- 6.Acte de décès (vue 28/31). Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du , registre des décès de 1941. Décès à l'hôpital Cochin. L'acte précise qu'il était célibataire.
- 7.« Dornac » sur appl-lachaise.net.
- 8.Dornac: Unmasking a photographer of Parisian society. Souren Melikian. 2 mai 2008. The New York Times.
- 9.M. Di Maria. Record mondial pour un tirage de Dornac. La Gazette Drouot La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot lire en. 16 mai 2008.
- 10.Dornac’s Portraits of the Artists. The New Yorker lire en. 23 juin 2011.
- 11.Photographies, collection Paul Marsan dit Dornac, lots no. 1 à 158, "Nos contemporains chez eux", 3e vente, Edmond Bénard, lots no. 159 à 199, "ateliers d'artistes" ; 2ème partie, photographies anciennes, modernes et contemporaines, lots no. 200 à 276. F. Bourgeois. 2013.
- 12.Dornac. Gallica.
- 13.Dornac. Musée Rodin.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Elizabeth Emery, Le Photojournalisme et la naissance des maisons-musées d’écrivains en France (1881-1914), Grenoble, Les Éditions de l’Université Savoie Mont Blanc, 2016, (Présentation en ligne).
- Marie Mallard, Étude de la série de Dornac "Nos contemporains chez eux", 1887–1917. Personnalités et espaces en représentation, mémoire de maîtrise en Histoire de l'art, Université Paris 4, 2 vol. (94-56 f., 162 f. de pl.), 1999.
- Valérie Sasportas. Des stars fin de siècle dans l'objectif. Le Figaro. 23 juin 2011.
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