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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > René Magritte

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Born: René-François-Ghislain Magritte 
Dates:  1898, 21 November - 1967, 15 August
Born:  Belgium, Hainaut, Lessines
Died:  Belgium, Brussels
Gender:  Male
 
  
Belgian painter, sculptor, and photographer. One of the greatest of the Surrealists.

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General reading 
  
Krauss, Rosalind E. & Livingston, Jane, 1985, L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism, (New York: Abbeville) [Exhibition catalogue.] [Δ] 
  
 
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com		 
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Daniel Frasnay
Magritte dans son atelier de Bruxelles 
1967, May
 
  
Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
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Internet biographies

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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. 
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Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on René Magritte.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Naef, Weston 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum - Handbook of the Photographic Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum) p.153 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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