My journey ends here...
Date of birth : August 22, 1908, Canteloup, Seine et Marne, France.
Date of death : August 2, 2004, l'Isle sur la Sorgue, Vaucluse, France.
Profession photographer.
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He first attended the Fenelon School and the lycee Condorcet in Paris, before studying the painting beside Cotenet from 1922 to 1923, and André Lhote from 1927 to 1928.
Then he went to study painting and philosophy at the Cambridge University, in England.
He started his photographer careere in 1931.
After his participation to an ethnographic expedition in Mexico, he worked as freelance photographer.The galerist Julien Levy offered himl his first personal exhibition in 1932.
In 1935, beside Paul
Strand he obtained the knowledge about cinema and then was cameraman
assistant of Jacques Becker, André Zvoboda and Jean Renoir.
In 1937, he married the Javanese dancer Ratna "Elie" Mohini (born Carolina Jeanne de Souza-Ijke May 17, 1904,
Batavia-October 24, 1988, Paris)(
). They divorced 30 years later, in 1967.
He directed some documentary films about Spain in 1937
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) and was POW by the Germans in the Bade-Wurtemberg in 1940.
independant photohgrapher after 1945 (
).His pictures were published in many books as "Images à la sauvette", "D'une Chine à l'autre" or "Flagrants délits".
In 1970, he married the photographer Martine Franck (April 2, 1938, Antwerpen-August 12, 2012, Paris)
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They will have a daughter, Melanie (born in 1972)(
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With Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour and George Rodger, he founded the Magnum group and has travelled in
Burma, India (
), Pakistan, China (
), Indonesia, Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Japan and ex-USSR.
He worked for the Magnum agency with other photographers of this agency on the filming of "The Misfits" (1961).
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Huston, Clark Gable and Arthur Miller 
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Huston, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift 
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