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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Laure Albin-Guillot

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Born: Laure Meffredi 
Dates:  1879 - 1962, 22 February
Born:  France, Paris
Died:  France, Nogent-sur-Marne
Active:  France
Gender:  Female
 
  
French woman photographer with a varied portfolio. She photographed microscope specimens examining plant and animal cell structure and 20 of these were included in her work ‘Micrographie Décorative‘. She also took nudes and portraits of notable French literary figures including André Gide, Jean Cocteau and Paul Valery.

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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 Laure Albin-Guillot.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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