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Monique Jacot

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Jacot in the 1980s

Monique Jacot (1934 – 6 August 2024) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.[1] Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[2]

Early life and education

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Jacot studied at the école des Arts et Métiers de Vevey from 1953 to 1956. Gertrude Fehr was one of her professors.[3][4]

Career

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Jacot was among the first women photojournalists.[4] She travelled to Yemen frequently in the 1980s, and provided reporting for numerous noted magazines and newspapers, including Camera, Elle, L'Illustré, Schweizer Illustrierte, Du, Réalités, and Vogue Paris.[5] Àlso in the 1980s, Jacot published several works on the conditions faced by women: Femmes de la terre in 1989, on the subject of Swiss women working in agriculture,[6] Printemps de femmes in 1994 and Cadences : l'usine au féminin in 1999.[3][4] During her career she was a staff photographer for the World Health Organization.[6]

Jacot died on 6 August 2024, at the age of 89.[7]

Publications

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  • Femmes de la terre (1989)[6]
  • Printemps de femmes (1994)[3][4]
  • Cadences : l'usine au féminin (1999)[3][4]

Awards

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  • 1974: Federal prize for Applied Arts[8]
  • 2005: Grand prize in photography from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture[9]
  • 2020: Grand Prize in Design, on the recommendation of the Swiss Design Commission[10][11]

Collections

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Jacot's work is included in the following permanent collection:

References

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  1. ↑ "Monique Jacot Is The Pioneering Female Photographer You Don't Know, But Should". HuffPost UK. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  2. 1 2 "Works | Monique Jacot | People | The MFAH Collections". emuseum.mfah.org. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Jacot, Monique". hls-dhs-dss.ch (in French).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Jaunin, Françoise. "Militante et poète". 24 heures.
  5. ↑ "Monique Jacot". rts.ch (in French). 3 February 1975.
  6. 1 2 3 Friedman, Julia (22 December 2014). "A Woman Who Wielded a Camera Like a Brush". Hyperallergic.
  7. ↑ "Addio a Monique Jacot". RSI. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "De l'Arabie heureuse, trésors de voyages". Le Temps (in French). 4 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "Fondation vaudoise pour la culture". www.fvpc.ch.
  10. ↑ "Grand Prix Design 2020 pour Ida Gut, Monique Jacot et Kueng Caputo". rts.ch (in French). 3 July 2020.
  11. ↑ "Monique Jacot, de l'expérimentation et des plumes". Le Temps (in French). 14 August 2020.


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