René Basset (photographer)
{{Short description|French photographer (1919–2021)}}
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René Basset (7 October 1919 – 12 October 2021) was a French photographer.{{cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122401404|title=Basset, René (1919-....)|via=BnF Catalogue général|language=French}} He received the Niépce Prize in 1958.
Biography
Basset's became a photographer in 1932 and created a studio in Lyon in 1949. He was a founding member of the groups Forme et Lumière and Forum. He was the oldest surviving recipient of the Niépce Prize.
René Basset died on 12 October 2021 at the age of 102.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=13 October 2021|title=Le photographe René Basset n'est plus|trans-title= |url=https://www.leprogres.fr/societe/2021/10/13/le-photographe-rene-basset-n-est-plus|language=French|work=Le Progrès|location= |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Exhibitions
- Rétrospective (1994, Lyon)
- Transparences (2000, La Ricamarie)
- Photogravure, la photo comme estampe (2000, Villeurbanne)
- Figures (2001, Francheville)
- Lyon Nostalgie (2013, Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or)
Bibliography
- {{Cite book|last=Verneret|first=Gilles|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/822829581|title=Lyon des photographes: publié à l'occasion de l'exposition organisée au musée des Moulages de Lyon, du 3 au 28 novembre 2009, pour les 10 ans de la galerie "Le Bleu du ciel|date=2009|publisher=Ed. Libel|isbn=978-2-917659-07-6|location=Lyon|language=French|oclc=822829581}}
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Category:20th-century French photographers
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