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Michelle Vignes
Beverly Playing the Blues, 1984
gelatin silver print14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Gift of Thomas D. and Barbara C. Peckenpaugh
© Michelle Vignes
Michelle Vignes (French, b. 1926)
Michelle Vignes was born in France in 1926, but has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1965. In the 1950s, she was a picture editor at the renowned Magnum Photos picture agency in Paris, where she had a close working relationship with Henri Cartier-Bresson. After immigrating to the United States, she began taking photographs herself and evolved into a socially and politically committed press photographer with a keen eye for the problems of American minorities, such as the Native American Indians. Her photographs have been published in such periodicals as Newsweek, Time, Libération, and Der Spiegel. In 1999, Vignes was awarded a knighthood by the French Minister of Culture.
