(based on "20th Century Photography-Museum Ludwig Cologne")
Maurice Tabard
(French, 1897–1984)
At an early age, Maurice Tabard studied fabric design at his father's
silk manufacturing plant in France. The family relocated to the United
States for his father's work and Tabard studied photography at the New
York Institute of Photography. He returned to France in the late 1920s and
continued his experimentation with double exposures and solarization
techniques, producing surrealist portraits, and still lifes. Tabard worked
in the fashion, advertising and portrait photography industries from
1928-1938. Most of his work, including his entire negative archive, was
lost during WWII. Tabard retired in 1965 and moved to Nice in 1980.
