Janine Niépce

Janine Niépce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007) was a French photographer and journalist.

Her career spanned developing films for the French Resistance to covering the women's liberation movement in the 1970s.

She is a distant relative of Nicéphore Niépce, the pioneer of photography.

[1] She was a liaison officer involved with the liberation of Paris after World War II.

[3] She and the Swiss-French Sabine Weiss, a near contemporary, worked as the only women photojournalists at Rapho amongst Robert Doisneau, Édouard Boubat, Denis Brihat, Jean Dieuzaide,[4] Bill Brandt, Ken Heyman, Izis, André Kertész, Yousuf Karsh, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Willy Ronis, Emile Savitry, Fouad Elkoury.