Janine niepce biography

Janine Niépce was.
Janine Niépce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007) was a French photographer and journalist.
Janine Niepce was one of the first photo-journalists in France.

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Janine Niepce was born on the 12^th of February 1921 in Meudon into a family of vinegrowers in Burgundy. She is distant related to Nicephore Niepce

In 1944, Janine Niepce graduated a license for the History of Art and of Archeology at the Sorbonne. At the same time, she developed films for the French Resistance and took part in the liberation of Paris as a liaison officer.

Janine Niepce was one of the first photo-journalists in France. Beginning in 1946 she traveled extensively in France, recording changes in French culture (including the first television in 1963, and the rise of rapid transport) and the contrast between life in the countryside, in the towns, and in the capital, Paris. Then from 1963 she began reporting from further afield in Europe and around the world, including Japan,Cambodia, India, USA, Canada. Dressed like a foreign tourist, she also covered the French events in May 1968.

In the 1970s, her work focused particularly on the women’s liberation movement and its struggles for freedom of contraception, abortion and wage equality. From 198

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Niepce, Janine (1921—)

French photographer.Born in Meudon, France, in 1921; degree in art and archaeology, Sorbonne, 1945.

A distant relative of pioneering French photographer Nicéphore Niepce, Janine Niepce was a trailblazer in her own right, becoming one of France's first women photojournalists. Born in 1921 into a family of vineyard owners in Meudon, France, Niepce graduated from the Sorbonne in 1945, then went to work for the bureau of tourism. In 1950, she opened Prix Niepce (of which she served as president), and in 1955 she joined Rapho, a photo agency in Paris. From 1960 to 1968, she participated in five traveling exhibitions organized by the minister of foreign affairs. She photographed in India (1963), Brazil (1968), and Cambodia and Japan (1970), and contributed photographs to a book on Simone de Beauvoir (1978). From 1981 to 1985, she created photographic documentaries on men and women and new technology.

Niepce had two solo exhibitions: at the Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France (1979) and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1983). The la

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Photographer Janine Niépce, one of France’s first female reporters, died on Sunday 5 August 2007.

The photographer Janine Niépce, a distant cousin of the inventor of photography Nicéphore Niépce, died on Sunday 5 August in Paris at the age of 86. Janine Niépce chose to capture ordinary people and their daily lives in black and white, a style that brought her close to Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis.

Born into a family of Burgundy winegrowers who went on to make aircraft and then film sets, she joined the Resistance and then studied art and archaeology, but became passionate about photography.

She became a professional photographer in 1946, becoming one of the first female reporters.
Influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who gave her sound advice on becoming a reporter, she joined Rapho in 1955. In the second half of the 20th century, her photos retrace fifty years of changes in the status of women, as well as the disappearing farming industry, the carefree days of the Trente Glorieuses and May 1968. A feminist, she helped found the Family Planning Movement in the 1