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Marc Garanger

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Marc Garanger (May 2, 1935 – April 28, 2020) was a French photographer.

Life

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Garanger was born in 1935 in Ézy-sur-Eure, France[1] and died on April 28, 2020, just six days before his 85th birthday.[2]

Career

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He was most famous for his portraits of Algerian women in the 1960s, where female prisoners were forced to remove their veils and were photographed by him against their will.[3][4][5] He was a winner of the 1966 Niépce Prize in photography.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Ramos, Patricia (April 30, 2013). "Algerian Women: Portraits of Women During the 1960s". Archived from the original on 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  2. ^ Portraits de femmes algériennes : « Elles m’ont foudroyé du regard » (in French)
  3. ^ Atti, Basma El (2022-05-17). "France's colonial legacy in Algeria: Rape as a weapon of war". www.newarab.com/. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  4. ^ Naggar, Carole (23 April 2013). "Women Unveiled: Marc Garanger's Contested Portraits of 1960s Algeria". Time.
  5. ^ Estrin, James (14 May 2010). "Unwilling Subjects in the Algerian War".
  6. ^ MacMaster, N. (2020). Burning the veil: The Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954–62. Manchester University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-5261-4618-2. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. ^ Saxton, S.L. (2020). No Power Without an Image: Icons Between Photography and Film. Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality. Edinburgh University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4744-6318-8. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
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