Denise Bellon

Denise Bellon (20 September 1902 – 31 October 1999) was a French photographer associated with the Surrealist movement.

She was born Denise Hulmann in Paris[1] and studied psychology at the Sorbonne.

[2] From 1934 to 1940, she was part of the team of photographers at the Alliance-Photo agency founded by Maria Eisner.

He founded the newspaper Midi Libre; she worked for the paper as a photographer.

[3] In 2001, her daughter Yannick and Chris Marker made a film Le souvenir d'un avenir (Remembrance of Things to Come) based on images from Bellon's archives.