Violette Cornelius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Violette Cornelius

Dutch artist and photographer

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1919

Place of Birth: Singapore

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1998

Profession: photographer, resistance fighter, architectural photographer, performance artist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Violette Cornelius

  • Violette Cornelius (17 March 1919, Batavia, Dutch East Indies - 23 January 1998, Saint-Maximin, France) was a Dutch photographer and resistance fighter during World War II.
  • During the war, she joined an artist's resistance group and contributed to clandestine magazines.
  • After the war, she specialized in architectural photography.
  • She collaborated on many business photo books, including one about Hoogovens IJmuiden with Cas Oorthuys and others.
  • In 1957 she made a book about the city of Weesp together with the author Jan Elburg.
  • She then went, often with colleague Sean Wellesley Miller, capturing the migration to urban areas in developing countries.
  • Later, she published reportages about Iraq, India, Peru, Yemen and Africa.
  • She worked with Ata Kandó in 1956 to document the situation of Hungarian refugees travelling to Austria.

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