The Photographs of Constant Alexandre Famin

Two Country Children

Mr. Bruce Anderton brought to my attention the name of Constant Alexandre Famin, a French photographer who was linked to the school of Fontainebleau. Famin was active between the 1850's and the 1870's. The heroes of his photographs are country children, farm animals, and the trees in the forest of Fontainebleau.

I suggest you to look comparatively at his photos, gathered in this post, and at the two photos from an older post on this blog (Auguste Giraudon's Artist). I would say the style is different: the country children in the works of Auguste Giraudon's Artist are, I think, slightly idealized.

I found a short bio of Constant Famin, that warns us to not confound him with Charles Famin (and it seems that actually there were two Charles Famin: a photographer and an architect and painter, both born in the same year, 1809).

Girl with Basket

Attelage

Farmer Attending Sheep

Scène de labour

Forest Scene, c.1865

Forest Scene

Forest, Fontainebleau

(In the Forest of Fontainebleau - from Corot to Monet)