Dany Gignoux
Dany Gignoux | |
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 Gignoux in 2020 | |
| Born | Danielle Gignoux 27 May 1944 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Died | 11 August 2025 (aged 81) Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland |
| Occupation(s) | Photojournalist Photographer |
Danielle "Dany" Gignoux (27 May 1944 – 11 August 2025) was a Swiss photojournalist and photographer.[1]
Life and career
Born in Geneva on 27 May 1944, Gignoux attended language school, learning English and German. In 1967, she joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and purchased her first camera, a Pentax. In 1973, she began collaborating with the French photo agency Gamma and began to cover folk and popular music in Switzerland, spiritualism in Brazil, and the lighthouses on the Île de Sein in France.[2] From 1981 to 1982, she worked for the Swiss magazine L'Illustré, where she took photographs of concerts in Geneva,[3] the new headquarters of the Association pour la musique improvisée,[4] the Carnival of Basel,[5] African migrants in Geneva,[6] and tourists in Switzerland and Italy.[7] She also covered the closure of the Café Monney in 1983.[8]
In 1985, Gignoux took part in a new mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ethiopia,[9] in which she took photographs of refugee camps.[10] From 1986 to 1987, she directed a program titled "La Suisse au fil du temps" Radio Télévision Suisse,[11] which included coverage of St. Martin's Day[12] and traditional Swiss butchery in the Bas-Valais.[13][14] In 1989, she followed the troupe Mir Caravane during their tour around Europe.[15]
Dany Gignoux died in Plan-les-Ouates on 11 August 2025, at the age of 81.[16]
References
- ^ Poinsot, Nicolas (13 August 2025). "Décès de Dany Gignoux, photographe culte des scènes de jazz". 24 heures (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Châtenay, Maxime; Gignoux, Dany (7 January 1981). "LÎle naufragée, une terre fantôme jetée au large de la Bretagne". L'Illustré (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Châtenay, Maxime; Gignoux, Dany (10 June 1981). "Les sons du nouveau matin : le jazz à la fête, Genève montre l'exemple". L'Illustré (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Châtenay, Maxime; Gignoux, Dany (6 January 1982). "La maison de toutes les musiques, l'Association pour l'encouragement à la musique improvisée est sous toit à Genève". L'Illustré (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Châtenay, Maxime; Gignoux, Dany (24 February 1982). "Que la fête commence, Bâle - et son Histoire - le temps d'un carnaval fantastique". L'Illustré (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Châtenay, Maxime (13 October 1982). "La filière noire". L'Illustré (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Châtenay, Maxime; Gignoux, Dany (1 September 1982). "Vacances en solde, Rimini pour 293 francs". L'Illustré (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ "M'sieurs, Dames, c'est l'heure". L'Hebdo (in French). 22 December 1983. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
- ^ Erriquez, Elio (11 April 1991). "Photographes de presse, cyclopes à focale variable". L'Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ "Guerre civile éthiopienne - Famine, 1985". International Committee of the Red Cross (in French). Archived from the original on 4 December 2020.
- ^ "La Suisse au fil du temps". Radio Télévision Suisse (in French).
- ^ Barde, Pierre (22 September 1987). "La Saint-Martin (2)". Radio Télévision Suisse (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ "Les potences de Liddes". L'Hebdo (in French). 10 September 1987. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Barde, Pierre (15 September 1987). "Boucherie à Liddes (1)". Radio Télévision Suisse (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ "Mir Caravane, le théâtre sans frontière". L'Illustré (in French). 30 August 1989. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Dumont, Etienne (13 August 2025). "La photographe de jazz Dany Gignoux s'est éteinte à 81 ans". Bilan (in French). Retrieved 17 August 2025.