Monique Jacot
Illustration — Jacot in the 1980s Monique Jacot (lang; 1934 – 6 August 2024) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Monique Jacot
- Born
- 1934 · Neuchâtel.
- Died
- 2024
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- photographer
- Fields
- photography · photojournalism
- Education
- Centre d'enseignement professionnel de Vevey
- Teachers
- Gertrude Fehr
- Honours
- Swiss Grand Award for Design
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Jacot in the 1980s Monique Jacot (lang; 1934 – 6 August 2024) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
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Monique Jacot (1934–2024) was a Swiss photographer. The photographer was born in Neuchâtel.
Monique Jacot studied at Centre d'enseignement professionnel de Vevey. The photographer lived in Epesses. Monique Jacot was active in photography and photojournalism.
Languages used include French. Works by the photographer are held at Berlinische Galerie and Photo Elysée. Monique Jacot received Swiss Grand Award for Design.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Monique Jacot studied at Centre d'enseignement professionnel de Vevey. Training under Gertrude Fehr is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is photography and photojournalism. Residence is recorded at Epesses. Work by Monique Jacot is recorded in the collections of Photo Elysée and Berlinische Galerie. Distinctions recorded are Swiss Grand Award for Design.
Jacot studied at the école des Arts et Métiers de Vevey from 1953 to 1956. Gertrude Fehr was one of her professors.
Career
Career
Jacot was among the first women photojournalists. She travelled to Yemen frequently in the 1980s, and provided reporting for numerous noted magazines and newspapers, including Camera, Elle, L'Illustré, Schweizer Illustrierte, Du, Réalités, and Vogue Paris. Àlso in the 1980s, Jacot published several works on the conditions faced by women: Femmes de la terre in 1989, on the subject of Swiss women working in agriculture, Printemps de femmes in 1994 and Cadences: l'usine au féminin in 1999. During her career she was a staff photographer for the World Health Organization. Jacot died on 6 August 2024, at the age of 89.
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1934
Monique Jacot was born on 19 August 1934.
2024
Monique Jacot died on 6 August 2024.
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Epesses
Residences
Neuchâtel.
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Publications
• Femmes de la terre (1989) • Printemps de femmes (1994) • Cadences: l'usine au féminin (1999)
Collections
Collections
Jacot's work is included in the following permanent collection: • Museum of Fine Arts Houston: 6 prints (as of 20 October 2024)
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1092056106, Monique Jacot: Paysages Intérieurs (1980-1981; Zürich).
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- VIAF cluster 12552482 for Monique Jacot, aggregating national library name authorities.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q18086591: Monique Jacot
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- “Monique Jacot”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 1974: Federal prize for Applied Arts • 2005: Grand prize in photography from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture • 2020: Grand Prize in Design, on the recommendation of the Swiss Design Commission
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- 1.Monique Jacot Is The Pioneering Female Photographer You Don't Know, But Should. HuffPost UK. 6 January 2015.
- 2.Works Monique Jacot People The MFAH Collections. emuseum.mfah.org.
- 3.Jacot, Monique. hls-dhs-dss.ch.
- 4.Jaunin, Françoise. Militante et poète. 24 heures.
- 5.Monique Jacot. rts.ch. 3 February 1975.
- 6.Friedman, Julia. A Woman Who Wielded a Camera Like a Brush. Hyperallergic. 22 December 2014.
- 7.RSI. Addio a Monique Jacot. 8 August 2024.
- 8.De l'Arabie heureuse, trésors de voyages. Le Temps. 4 December 2019.
- 9.Fondation vaudoise pour la culture. www.fvpc.ch.
- 10.Grand Prix Design 2020 pour Ida Gut, Monique Jacot et Kueng Caputo. rts.ch. 3 July 2020.
- 11.Monique Jacot, de l'expérimentation et des plumes. Le Temps. 14 August 2020.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1092056106, Monique Jacot: Paysages Intérieurs (1980-1981; Zürich).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Recognition and collections. Jacot received Swiss Grand Award for Design.
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