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

Life

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

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

  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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