Monique Jacot
Monique Jacot(1934 – 6 August 2024) was a Swiss photographer andphotojournalist.[1]
Early life
[edit]Jacot studied at the école des Arts et Métiers de Vevey from 1953 to 1956.Gertrude Fehrwas one of her professors.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Jacot was among the first women photojournalists.[3]
She travelled toYemenfrequently in the 1980s, and provided reporting for numerous noted magazines and newspapers, includingCamera,Elle,L'Illustré,Schweizer Illustrierte,Du,Réalités,andVogue Paris.[4]
Àlso in the 1980s, Jacot published several works on the conditions faced by women:Femmes de la terrein 1989, on the subject of Swiss women working in agriculture,[5]Printemps de femmesin 1994 andCadences: l'usine au fémininin 1999.[2][3]
During her career she was a staff photographer for theWorld Health Organization.[5]
Her work is included in the collection of theMuseum of Fine Arts Houston.[6]
Death
[edit]Jacot died on 6 August 2024, at the age of 89.[7]
Awards
[edit]- 1974: Federal prize for Applied Arts[8]
- 2005: Grand prize in photography from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture.[9]
- 2020: Grand Prize in Design, on the recommendation of the Swiss Design Commission[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^"Monique Jacot Is The Pioneering Female Photographer You Don't Know, But Should".HuffPost UK.6 January 2015.Retrieved2021-09-14.
- ^ab"Jacot, Monique".hls-dhs-dss.ch(in French).
- ^abcJaunin, Françoise."Militante et poète".24heures.ch.
- ^"Monique Jacot".rts.ch(in French). 3 February 1975.
- ^abFriedman, Julia (22 December 2014)."A Woman Who Wielded a Camera Like a Brush".Hyperallergic.
- ^"Monique Jacot: Maternité de Norques".mfah.org.
- ^"Addio a Monique Jacot".RSI. 8 August 2024.Retrieved8 August2024.
- ^"De l'Arabie heureuse, trésors de voyages".Le Temps(in French). 4 December 2019.
- ^"Fondation vaudoise pour la culture".fvpc.ch.
- ^"Grand Prix Design 2020 pour Ida Gut, Monique Jacot et Kueng Caputo".rts.ch(in French). 3 July 2020.
- ^"Monique Jacot, de l'expérimentation et des plumes".Le Temps(in French). 14 August 2020.
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