Denise Bellon

Denise Bellon (France, 1902-1999) is considered one of the pioneers of photojournalism. She worked for Alliance-Photo, the first press agency, for which she made anthropological and social photographic reports. She was part of the New Vision movement and was closely linked to the surrealist movement. Her daughter, the filmmaker Yannick Bellon, dedicated to her a documentary entitled Le Souvenir d’un avenir (Memories of the future) in 2001, in which she reflects her mother’s poetic sensibility and the spirit of her time.