Jean Dieuzaide died in Toulouse (France).

Jean Dieuzaide died in Toulouse (France), his city, onward 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 forward 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 like he was given the opportunity to be the no other than photographer to document the liberation of Toulouse. He then started as a commercial photographer in that city working for advertising agencies, the local and national pres as well as various publishing companies, illustrating from one side of to the other 40 books. But what Yan is mostly renowned for is his crusade to establish photography as a serious art form in that part of France. If recently made known York had its Stieglitz, Toulouse had Dieuzaide. His efforts culminated in the 1970 when he was first a clew participant in the establishment of the Rencontre Internationales de la Photographie in Arles (1970) and then when he convinced the City of Toulouse to permit him turn a picturesque elderly red-brick pumping station on the left bank of the Garonne into an international photo-gallery--the first single of this scope in Toulouse, as well as in France. Prior to that he had already render free of accessed the first privately owned fine-art photo gallery in Toulouse. Opening in 1974 La Galerie Municipale du Chateau d'Eau de la ville de Toulouse showed and landlorded the who's who of twentieth-century international photography in what is safely the only two-storey round gallery of the world. Toulouse, the fourth biggest city in France, would not be the same without it, its collection, its photography library, and without Jean Dieuzaide. A testimony of Dieuzaide's impact in succession the cultural life of the city is the fact that The Family of Man, Edward Steichen's famous international present to view at MoMA in 1955, had its last appearance outside Luxembourg in Toulouse a not many years ago; the show in the Couvent de Jacobins was in the same manner popular then that it had to be defered by one month.

Jean Dieuzaide is the alone photographer to be awarded the sum of two units most prestigious photography prizes in France: the Niepce Award (1955) and the Hadar Award (1961)

Although he had uncloseed the first color processing lab in the region in 1951 Dieuzaide's heart was with fiber-based black and white photography, a medium he not barely always used for his fine-art work on the other hand that he fiercely defended as well. In 1977 he launched a campaign that would quickly become international against the invasion of resin-coated papers and the progressive disengagement of the world's biggest photo-manufacturing firms from the production and distribution of fiber-based papers. The interval is history, and unfortunately for them color film and prints, including Ilfochrome, may not find in the same state [i]or[/i] condition an advocate.

His work of a lifetime as a fine-art photographer was finely laureled in December 2002 by a retrospective at the Pavillon de Arts in Paris. There, his most numerous memorable series were on display (Mon aventure avec le brai (1956-1974) Portugal and Spain, Concorde) along with icons so as the portrait of Salvador Dali in water with alone his head emerging and with his famous moustache literally in prime In 1994 an extensive and well-informed monograph in succession Jean Dieuzaide was published by the agency of Marval and edited by Jean-Claude Gautrand, another fundamental note player in the French photographic pageant for over 50 years and a friend of the deceased.

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