Brigitte Lacombe

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Brigitte Lacombe (born December 23, 1950 in Alès ) is a French photographer . She was best known for her portraits of well-known film and theater actors and as a still photographer .

Life

Brigitte Lacombe was born in 1950 as the middle of three children of a general secretary of a workers' cooperative and an anesthetist .

She grew up in Paris and dropped out of school when she was 16. Afterwards, through her father's mediation, she received an internship in the Paris photo laboratory of Elle magazine , where she works for Jeannette Leroy and Peter Knapp , among others . For the magazine, she attended the 1975 Cannes International Film Festival . There she met the actor Dustin Hoffman , who offered to document the filming of the political thriller Die Unbrechlichen photographically. Through a contact with Donald Sutherland , she then also worked as a still photographer on the set of Fellini's Casanova . In 1977 she worked for Steven Spielbergs as a photographer on the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind , in whose screenplay Spielberg used her name for the character of Prof. Lacombe , portrayed by François Truffaut .

In 1983 she photographed David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Chicago's The Goodman Theater. Lacombe later worked repeatedly with Mamet. From 1985 to 1992 she worked at the New York Lincoln Center Theater as a staff photographer.

As a still photographer , she worked on sets of films by directors Martin Scorsese , Mike Nichols , Sam Mendes , Michael Haneke , David Mamet , Quentin Tarantino , James Gray and Spike Jonze, among others . Her recordings have been published in publications such as Vanity Fair , Acne Paper , The New Yorker , The Financial Times Magazine , WSJ Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , Vogue , Nowness and the New York Magazine .

Since 2009, Lacombe has been working on a project for the Doha Film Institute and the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar , where she is building a collection of over 250 portraits of numerous filmmakers and actors, mostly from the Middle East. Together with her sister Marian Lacombe , she then worked on the Hey'Ya Arab Women in Sport project , which shows film and photo recordings of Arab women athletes. The results of this collaboration were shown at Sotheby’s during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London .

In 2000 she was awarded The Eisenstaedt Award for Travel Photography . In 2010 she received the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography .

In 2016 she was appointed to the jury of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival .

Brigitte Lacombe lives and works in New York City .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The long road to equality . In: ZEITmagazin No. 16/2017 of April 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Clémentine Goldszal: Binoche, Sempé, Phoenix ... 22 célébrités dans l'objectif de Brigitte Lacombe . In: lemonde.fr of June 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at brigittelacombe.com, accessed February 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brigittelacombe.com
  4. ↑ Arab women in sport: 'There will be no more barriers for us' at guardian.co.uk, accessed February 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lacombe, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Alès , France