Denise Bellon
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| Born | Denise Hulmann 20 September 1902 Paris,France |
| Died | 31 October 1999(aged 97) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Occupation | photographer |
Denise Bellon(20 September 1902 – 31 October 1999) was a French photographer associated with theSurrealistmovement.
Life[edit]
She was bornDenise Hulmannin Paris[1]and studiedpsychologyat theSorbonne.She first married Jacques Bellon although the couple later divorced.[1]Bellon began work as a photographer with Pierre Boucher.[2]From 1934 to 1940, she was part of the team of photographers at the Alliance-Photo agency founded byMaria Eisner.[3]In 1940, she married Armand Labin|fr. He founded the newspaperMidi Libre;she worked for the paper as a photographer. During theNazioccupation of France, from 1940, she lived inLyon.From 1946 until 1956 when she returned to Paris, Bellon lived inMontpellier.[1]
She was photographer for theInternational Exhibitions of Surrealismheld in 1938, 1947, 1959 and 1965. Bellon also photographed various Surrealist artists and their works, includingJoan Miró,Yves Tanguy,Marcel Duchamp,andMarcel Jean.[2]
She was the mother of French actressLoleh Bellonand French film-makerYannick Bellon.[3]
Bellon died in Paris at the age of 97.[3]
In 2001, her daughter Yannick andChris Markermade a filmLe souvenir d'un avenir(Remembrance of Things to Come) based on images from Bellon's archives.[4]
References[edit]
- ^abc"Fonds photographique Denise Bellon (1902–1999)".Joseph Delteil(in French).
- ^abAspley, Keith (2010).Historical Dictionary of Surrealism.Scarecrow Press. pp. 66–67.ISBN978-0810858473.
- ^abc"Denise Bellon, mort d'une photographe émerveillée".Libération(in French). 12 November 1999.
- ^"The Skein of the Archive: Denise Bellon and Remembrance of Things to Come".Afterall.
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