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2 unusual facts about Janine Niépce


Janine Niépce

Since 1955, Janine Niépce worked with Rapho agency which published her photographs in the French press and internationally.

A cousin of Nicéphore Niépce, the pioneer of photography, she was born into a family of winemakers in Burgundy.


Peter Turnley

He began working as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in 1981 and with Doisneau's introduction to Raymond Grosset, the director of the Rapho photo agency, Turnley became a member of Rapho, working alongside many of the photographers of the French school of humanistic photography such as Édouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau, Janine Niépce, Willy Ronis, Hans Sylvester, and Sabine Weiss.


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