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DAUMAN Henri

Date of birth : April 5, 1933, Paris, France.

Date of death : September 13, 2023, Long Island.

Occupation photographer

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Born and grown up in Paris.
In 1939-1945, during the war, and while his father was deported to Auschwitz, his mother hid
him in the Yvelines area, then in Normandy.

In 1946, his mother died accidentally. He then spent his youth in orphanages.
In 1949 he was apprentice in a photography studio in Courbevoie, close suburb of Paris.
In 1950 he was Mr De Longchamp's assistant, a Paris fashion photographer; he made portraits of celebrities for Radio Luxembourg and the Bertrand agency, specialized in entertainment photography.
On December 14, 1950 he emigrated to the USA to join his uncle Sam.
In 1954 he collaborated with newspaper France-Amérique.
On March 1, 1954 birth of his son Philippe Pierre Dauman.
In 1956 he made his first assignment about New York city in the New York Times Magazine.
In 1958 he made his first assignment commissioned by Life magazine, about Jean Seberg's wedding. He worked for the European press. He tranformed his kitchen into a darkroom, did assignments on his own initiative he offered and spontaneously sent to numerous magazines. He worked for France Dimanche, le Figaro, Paris-Match, Life and Newsweek.
On January 20, 1961, he negociated an important contract for the inauguration fo John Kennedy, which allowed him to obtain several accreditations to cover events concerning the President and the American political life.

1962, he appeared in Louis Malle's "Vie Privée", in the role of a photographer (

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1963, he made the transition to color photography.
In 1967 he received the Picture of the Year International prize from the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri. He joined the Arts and Leisure section for the sunday edition of the New York Times. He rented a studio and began to work in publicity photography for important American companies like Monsento, IBM or Saks Fifth Avenue.
In 1970, he became an associate in company that produces audiovisual software for cinema and television : he was Director and Vice-President of Cinergy Communications Corporation. He became producer and director for documentaries , director of photography for several channels such as BBC-TV, PBS, NET.
In 1972, he published a book on the defense of photographers' rights with the American Society of Media Photographers "ASMP Business Practices Guide".
In 1974-75, he lectured on photojournalism at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In 1976, he pursued his photographic activities in the industrial and publicity fields.
In 1997 he filed a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation, Archive and Museum for the use of his portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in the work Sixteen Jackies. The case went down in the history of image copyright law.
In 2002 he participated in the collective exhibition "Shopping : a Century of Art and Consumer Culture" at the Tate Liverpool.
In 2003 he participated in the collective exhibition "John F.Kennedy" at the Deutschen Historischen Museum.
November-December 2014, exhibition in Paris 'The Manhattan Darkroom" with more than 200 pictures.

He lives in New York with his wife Odiana (