Janine Niépce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007) was a
French
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photographer
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and
journalist
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. Her career spanned developing films for the
French Resistance
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to covering the
women's liberation movement in the 1970s.
Biography
Janine Niépce was born February 12, 1921, in
Meudon, France. She is a distant relative of
Nicéphore Niépce, the pioneer of photography.
In 1944, she graduated from the
Sorbonne.
She was a liaison officer involved with the liberation of Paris after
World War II
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. In 1946 she became a professional photographer.
She and the Swiss-French
Sabine Weiss, a near contemporary, worked as the only women photojournalists at
Rapho amongst
Robert Doisneau,
Édouard Boubat
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,
Denis Brihat,
Jean Dieuzaide,
[Robin Lenman, "Rapho"; in ''The Oxford Companion to the Photograph,'' ed. Robin Lenman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; ).] Bill Brandt
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,
Ken Heyman,
Izis
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,
André Kertész,
Yousuf Karsh
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,
Jacques Henri Lartigue
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,
Willy Ronis
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,
Emile Savitry
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,
Fouad Elkoury
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. She was influenced by
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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.
In the 1970s, her work focused particularly on the women's liberation movement.
In 1981 Niépce was named
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 1985 she became a Knight of the
Legion d'Honor.
She died August 5, 2007.
Publications
Janine Niépce has published at least 20 books of photographs, the most recent ones are:
*''Niépce Duras'' (Éditions Actes Sud, 1992)
*''Les années femmes'' (Éditions de la Martinière, 1993)
*''Mes années campagne'' (Éditions de la Martinière, 1994)
*''Images d’une vie'' (Éditions de la Martinière, 1995)
*''Les vendanges'' (Éditions Hoëbeke, 2000)
*''Françaises, Français, le goût de vivre'' (Éditions Imprimerie Nationale Actes Sud, 2005)
Exhibitions
* 2003 Debelleyme Gallery, exhibition sale of signed prints
* 2004 Sale at the exhibition gallery Artcurial during the Mois de la Photo
* 2006 Exhibition, "Douce France" at the Museum of Auxerre.
References
Further reading
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External links
images by Janine Niépceon LiveJournal.
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French photographers
1921 births
2007 deaths
University of Paris alumni
French women photographers
20th-century French women artists
20th-century women photographers