Fernand Fonssagrives

Fernand Fonssagrives (June 8, 1910 - April 23, 2003) born near Paris, France he was a photographer known for his 'beauty photography' in the early 1940s, and as the first husband of the legendary model Lisa Fonssagrives.

Fonssagrives married Lisa, his first wife, in 1935 and both became dancers. He said that he gave up dancing after he was injured in a diving accident. He turned to photography and was a popular fashion photographer in the 1940s and 1950s when he took pictures for Town and Country and Harper's Bazaar magazines. The Fonssagrives divorced in 1950 and Lisa Fonssagrives married the photographer, Irving Penn.

Fonssagrives's second marriage also ended in divorce. The native Frenchman lived the last 30 years of his life in Little Rock, Arkansas. His later pictures featured female nudes with patterns of light on their skin.

Fonssagrives was survived by a daughter from his first marriage, Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, who is a costume designer, and a son from his second marriage, Mark Fonssagrives.