1959 Photo Contest
1959 Photo Contest, Features, Singles, 2nd prize
Photographer

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier

01 January, 1955

Street scene in Kuwait: A woman carries a sewing machine on her head.

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Jean-Philippe Charbonnier

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (1921-2004) was born in Paris in an artistic family. In 1939, his father gave him his first camera, and his neighbour, the cinema photographer Sam Lévin...

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1959 Photo Contest

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