Niepce, Janine (1921–)

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Niepce, Janine (1921–)

French photographer. Born in Meudon, France, 1921; degree in art and archaeology, Sorbonne, 1945; distant relative of pioneering French photographer Nicéphore Niepce.

One of France's 1st women photojournalists, opened Prix Niepce (1950); joined Rapho, a photo agency in Paris (1955); participated in 5 traveling exhibitions organized by the minister of foreign affairs (1960–68); photographed in India (1963), Brazil (1968), and Cambodia and Japan (1970), and contributed photographs to a book on Simone de Beauvoir (1978); created photographic documentaries (1981–85); had 2 solo exhibitions: at Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saêne (1979) and at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1983). Retrospective of her work, "Janine Niepce, France 1947–1992", was mounted at the Espace Electra in Paris (1992).

See also Women in World History.

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