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Article: Jean Dieuzaide, 1935-2003.
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- January 1, 2004
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Jean Dieuzaide died in Toulouse (France), his city, on September 18, 2003. Along with Edouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau, Izis, and Willy Ronis, he belonged to the generation of photographers who defined the so-called French "Humanist School" of photography.
Born on June 20, 1921 in Grenade-sur-Garonne in the south-west of France, his experience in the French resistance during World War II won him the nickname of "Yan" with which he signed his photographs. As such he was given the opportunity to be the only photographer to document the liberation of Toulouse. He then started as a commercial photographer in that city working for advertising agencies, the local and ...