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In 1999, Pierre-Yves Mahe, founder of SPEOS photography school, rented on the Gras estate, the part of the house where Niépce had located his laboratory-workshop in Saint-Loup de Varennes.
Pierre-Yves Mahe was the first photographer to occupy the place since the inventor’s death in 1833.The historical residence had remained unexplored until then, just gazed at from outside by some curious people.
With Jean-Louis Marignier, a scientist at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), they recreated Niépce’s working conditions, and with methodical diggings they rediscovered the site of his experiments.
Restoring the House is the first step of an ambitious project that will lead to bring this man, its life and achievements to light.
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> The team
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• Pierre-Yves MAHÉ: Pierre-Yves Mahé directs the Maison Nicéphore Niépce project from its beginning in July 1999. Commercial photographer and holder of an executive MBA diploma from HEC, he has also created the school of photography SPEOS in 1985, as well as Prophot-Numérique in collaboration with André Lebrun in 1997.
He is the inventor of the Stop-System photographic method and the co-writer with Richard Zakia and Gordon Brown of the book entitled “Beginning Photography using the Stop-System”, published by France Delory editions in 1999 and distributed by Kodak Books in the US..
• Jean-Louis MARIGNIER: Jean-Louis Marignier works as a research scholar in the chemistry laboratory of the CNRS, specializing in radiation chemistry and, within that field, the high-speed chemical reactions taking place on a scale of one one-thousandth to one one-millionth of a second. He is in charge of the electron accelerator Elyse, the only one of its kind in Europe. His research also entails the synthesis produced by the radiation of metallic aggregates of a few atoms as well as the explanation of their individual properties. These small particles of metal are not only the basis of chemical catalysts but also of latent images in photography. In this way J.-L. Marignier has come to reconcile his passion for photography with his professional research. Starting in 1989, he became interested in the history of the first photographic processes, notably those achieved by Niepce, which he reproduced in their entirety between 1989 and 1992. He serves as scientific advisor for the museum created in 2003 in Niepce's house in Saint-Loup de Varennes, near Chalon sur Saone. A member of the French Academy of Sciences (and a recipient of the Kodak prize in 1991), he also received the Salverte medal from the French Photography Society in the same year..
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• Michèle LOURSEAU: Chemist at the CNRS (Physics and Chemistry Laboratory-Orsay University) Participated to research which permitted the re-creation of Heliography in 1989, and of the Physautotype in 1992 and also of the first silver chloride negatives on paper as described by Niépce.
• Jean-Louis BRULEY: professor of Mechanic Engineering in higher education schools, interested for 15 years in the motorizations of the future, has been able to reconstitute the Pyreolophore of the Niépce brothers. Co-constructor of the Pyreolophore 2000, he is now working on its optimization. He will be your guide for off-season visits of Niépce’s House.
• Nicole CAPOULADE: Niépce’s House national visits manager
• Céline CLANET: Visual Identity, print and web communication
• Jean-Pierre PAVILLARD, Eva ELLENBERGER: English language translators
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