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The Niépce Prize has been awarded annually since 1955 to a professional photographer who has lived and worked in France for over 3 years and is younger than 50 years (previously 45 years) of age. It was introduced in honour of
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
by Albert Plécy and Paul Almásy for the l'Association Gens d'Images.


History

The Prix Niépce Gens d'images "rewards each year the work of a professional photographer residing in France for more than three years, and aged under 50 at most on January 1 of the year for which he competes. It is supported by the
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and by the
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, a historical institutional partner which hosts the deliberations and the proclamation of the prize. From 2011 to 2015, it is financially endowed by the film company MK2, directed by Marin Karmitz. Since 2016, it is endowed by the Picto Foundation, the endowment fund of the Picto laboratories which rewards the winner, designs and produces with The Eyes Publishing an artist's book. Since 2019, it has also benefited from the patronage of ADAGP, Society of authors in the graphic and plastic arts.


List of winners

* 1954:
Jean Dieuzaide Jean Dieuzaide (20 June 1921 – 18 September 2003) was a French photographer. Early life and education Dieuzaide was born on 20 June 1921 in Grenade, Haute-Garonne, and at 13 was given a cardboard Coronet 6 x 9 camera. He attended secondary s ...
* 1956:
Robert Doisneau Robert Doisneau (; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. Dois ...
* 1957: Denis Brihat * 1958: René Basset * 1959: Jeanloup Sieff * 1960: Léon Herschtritt * 1961: Jean-Dominique Lajoux * 1962: Jean-Louis Swiners * 1963: Jean Suquet * 1964:
Jean Garet Jean Garet (c. 1627 at Le Havre – 24 September 1694 at Jumièges) was a French Benedictine scholar of the Congregation of Saint-Maur. Lifre He was professed in 1647 when he was twenty years old, and lived in the Abbey of Saint-Ouen at Rouen. W ...
* 1965: Thierry Davoust * 1966: Marc Garanger and Rudolf Lichtsteiner * 1967:
Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
and Dorine Berdoy * 1968: Claude Sauvageot * 1969: Jean-Pierre Ducatez * 1970: Serge Chirol and Claude-Raimond Dityvon * 1971: Jean-Luc Tartarin * 1972: Pierre Le Gall and Guillaume Lieury * 1973: Albert Visage * 1974: Pierre Michaud * 1975: Jean-Louis Nou * 1976: Eddie Kuligowski, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou * 1977: Roland Laboye * 1978: Alain Chartier * 1979: Françoise Saur * 1980: Gilles Kervella * 1981: Frédéric Brenner and
Jacques Bondon Jacques Bondon (full name Jacques Laurent Jules Désiré Bondon; 6 December 1927 – 2 April 2008) was a French composer. Life Bondon was born in Boulbon (Bouches-du-Rhône). He arrived in Paris aged nineteen to study music. He began studying ...
* 1982: Not awarded * 1983: Pascal Dolémieux * 1984: Thierry Girard * 1985: Hervé Rabot * 1986: Jean-Marc Zaorski * 1987: Agnès Bonnot * 1988: Keiichi Tahara * 1989: Gladys and Patrick Zachmann * 1990: Hugues de Wurstemberger * 1991: Jean-Louis Courtinat * 1992: Luc Choquer * 1993: Jean-Claude Coutausse * 1994: Xavier Lambours * 1995: Marie-Paule Nègre * 1996:
Lise Sarfati Lise Sarfati (born 1958) is a French photographer and artist. She is noted for her photographs of elusive characters, often young, who resist any attempt to being pinned down. Her work particularly explores the instability of feminine identity. M ...
* 1997: Patrick Tosani * 1998: Florence Chevallier * 1999: Philippe Bazin * 2000: Klavdij Sluban * 2001: Antoine D'Agata * 2002: Luc Delahaye * 2003: Stéphane Couturier * 2004: Claudine Doury * 2005:
Elina Brotherus Elina Brotherus (born 29 April 1972) is a Finnish photographer and video artist specializing in self-portraits and landscapes. Life Brotherus was born in Helsinki. She earned an M.S. in analytical chemistry from the University of Helsinki in 199 ...
* 2006: Onodera Yuki * 2007: Bertrand Meunier * 2008: Jürgen Nefzger * 2009: Stéphanie Lacombe * 2010: Jean-Christian Bourcart * 2011: Guillaume Herbaut * 2012: Denis Darzacq * 2013: Valérie Jouve * 2014: Mathieu Pernot * 2015: Laurent Millet * 2016: Laurence Leblanc * 2017: Olivier Culmann * 2018: * 2019: * 2020:


References


External links


Website about Niépce

Website about Niépce

University of Texas exhibition site on "The First Photograph"

Documentary video on restoration of Nicephore Niepce's home


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