Jean Dieuzaide: the light photographer by PatriceChesse, journal
Jean Dieuzaide: the light photographer
Much of his work was signed 'Yan'—his Resistance nickname from the Second World War—because he felt that photography might not be a respectable occupation. One of the few photographers to document the liberation of Toulouse in 1944, Dieuzaide soon became a professional photo-reporter, initially specializing in sports, then covering all the actualité.
But he was also a faithful recorder of his native south-western France, where his first book on Gascony was published in 1946, as well as its adjoining regions, especially Catalonia, Spain, and Portugal. His pictures of French and Spanish gitans are romantic evocations of their lif