Izis (1911-1980)
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Isra_li Bidermanas (January 17, 1911 Marijampol? - May 16, 1980, Paris), who worked under the name Izis, was a Lithuanian-Jewish photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris. Born in Marijampol?, present-day Lithuania, Bidermanas arrived in France in 1930 to become a painter. In 1933 he directed a photography studio in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. During World War II, being a Jew, he had to leave occupied Paris. He went to Ambazac, in the Limousin, where he adopted the pseudonym Izis and where he was arrested and tortured by the Nazis. He was liberated by the French Resistance and became an underground fighter. During that time he photographed his companions, including Colonel Georges Guingouin. The poet and underground fighter Robert Giraud was the first to write about Izis in the weekly newspaper UNIR, a magazine created by the resistance. After the liberation of France at the end of World War II, Izis had a series of portraits of Maquisards (rural resistance fighters which mainly managed in southern France) was published to considerable acclaim. He returned to Paris where he became friends with French poet Jacques Prevert and other artists. Izis became an important figure in the mid-century French movement of humanist photography - also illustrated by Brassa_ , Cartier-Bresson , Doisneau and Ronis - "work that often displayed a wistful poetic image of the city and its people." ]For his first book, Paris des r
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