Special Collection Offering

Janine Niepce Collection

Janine Niépce was a French photographer and journalist. Her career spanned developing films for the French Resistance to covering the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s.

Janine Niépce was born February 12, 1921, in Meudon,  France. She is a distant relative of Nicephore Niepce, the pioneer of photography. In 1944, she graduated from the Sorbonne. She was a liaison officer involved with the liberation of Paris after World War II and in 1946 she became a professional photographer. She and the Swiss-French Sabine Weiss, a near contemporary, worked as the only women photojournalists at Rapho among artists like Robert Doisneau and Edouard Boubat and she was influenced by Henri Cartier-Bressson.

In the 1970s, her work focused particularly on the women's liberation movement.

In 1981 Niépce was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and in 1985 she became a Knight of the Legion d’Honor.

She died August 5, 2007.

Each piece is currently valued at between $1,000 - $1,5000.  We are offering these four 11 x 14 images, matted to 16x20, unframed for $1,000 for the collection.  Please text 480-280-4836 if you are interested in owning this rare collection.