Denise Bellon
Denise Bellon , née Hulmann (born September 20, 1902 in Paris ; † October 31, 1999 there ), was a French photographer who was associated with the surrealist movement .
life and work
Denise Hulmann studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1920 and was her first marriage to Jacques Bellon. In 1924 the daughter Yannick Bellon , later a film director, was born in Biarritz, in 1925 the later actress and dramaturge Loleh Bellon († 1999) in Bayonne. In 1934 she divorced, whereupon she turned to photography at the side of Pierre Boucher . In the same year, along with Maria Eisner , René Zuber and Boucher, she co-founded the Parisian photo agency Alliance-Photo , a forerunner of Magnum Photos .
At the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938, like Man Ray, she was among the photographers who documented the now famous surrealism exhibition. The photo of Salvador Dalí's Taxi Pluvieux ( rain taxi ) was made by Bellon, as were portraits of the mannequins exhibited there, such as those of André Masson . She took part in the other surrealist exhibitions in 1947, 1959 and 1965.
In 1940 Bellon married the Romanian journalist Armand Labin , founder of the newspaper Midi Libre in 1944 , and their son Jérôme was born. From 1940 to 1946 they lived in Lyon , then in Montpellier . After Labin's death in 1956, she returned to Paris.
Bellon made many trips to make recordings, so she traveled to Morocco in 1936, to Finland in 1939 and in 1940 together with Georges Kessel to French West Africa . In 1947 she was in Tunisia and in 1950 in Spain. She created photo portraits of Parisian personalities such as Pierre Balmain , Simone de Beauvoir , Joë Bousquet , Jean Giono , Henri Langlois and André Masson.
Bellon is the grandmother of the publisher and essayist Jaime Semprun , son of their daughter Loleh Bellon and the writer Jorge Semprún .
literature
- Eric Le Roy: Denise Bellon . Éditions de la Martinière, Paris 2004, ISBN 978-2-7324-3136-9
- Éric Le Roy: Denise Bellon: Tunisie: Photographies 1947–1960 . éditions Cérès, Tunis 2009, ISBN 978-9-973-19727-6
Movie
- Yannick Bellon and Chris Marker , Le Souvenir d'un avenir , 2001, b / w, 42 min, engl. Version, broadcast on arte on June 7, 2003
Web links and source
- Denise Bellon
- Denise Bellon at photography-now.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Artnet , www.artnet.com, accessed November 4, 2011
- ↑ Masson's mannequin doll , images.artnet.com, accessed 5 November 2011
- ↑ Le Souvenir d'un avenir (2001) ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), filmmuseum.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bellon, Denise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hulman, Denise (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1999 |
| Place of death | Paris |