Harry Ossip Meerson
Harry Ossip Meerson (1910 or 1911 – 7 May 1991) was a French photographer. Harry Ossip Meerson was born in Warsaw, Poland in either 1910 or 1911. His elder brother Lazare Meerson was an influential art director in French cinema of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Harry Ossip Meerson

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- Died
- 1991 · Béziers.
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- France
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- photographer
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- French
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Harry Ossip Meerson (1910 or 1911 – 7 May 1991) was a French photographer. Harry Ossip Meerson was born in Warsaw, Poland in either 1910 or 1911. His elder brother Lazare Meerson was an influential art director in French cinema of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Born at Warsaw in 1910, died in Béziers in 1991.
The recorded working language is French. Work by Harry Ossip Meerson is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada.
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- 1.Harry Ossip Meerson. Curiator.
- 2.Ephraim Katz, The International Film Encyclopedia (London: Macmillan, 1980) p.795.
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