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Peress, Gilles

LC control no.n 87143314
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Personal name headingPeress, Gilles
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LocatedBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1946-12-29
Place of birthFrance
Field of activityPhotography Photojournalism
AffiliationBard College University of California, Berkeley. Human Rights Center
Magnum Photos
Université de Paris VIII: Vincennes
Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Profession or occupationPhotographers Photojournalists
Found innuc87-118472: His Telex Iran, c1983 (hdg. on ICU rept.: Peress, Gilles; usage: Gilles Peress)
His Farewell to Bosnia, c1994: t.p. (Gilles Peress)
BL H&SS, 27 Sept. 1999 (hdg.: Peress, Gilles, 1946-)
Photojournalists on war, 2013: page 278 (Gilles Peress)
Wikipedia web site, November 7, 2019: (Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos.)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Peress>
Magnum Photos web site, November 7, 2019: (Gilles Peress ; Peress is Professor of Human Rights and Photography at Bard College, NY and Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley. Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1971 and served three times as vice-president and twice as president of the co-operative. He and his wife, Alison Cornyn, live in Brooklyn with their three children. Education: 1966/68 Institut d'Etudes Politiques; 1968/71 Université de Vincennes)
   <https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/gilles-peress/>
Associated languageeng fre