Françoise Demulder
Visual Artist
1947 – 2008
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Who was Françoise Demulder?
Françoise Demulder was a French war photographer who in 1976 became the first woman to win the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award. The winning image was a black-and-white photo of a Palestinian woman raising her hands at a masked militiaman in Beirut's war-ravaged La Quarantaine district. Demulder died on 3 September 2008 aged 61, having suffered a heart attack at a hospital in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret.
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- Born
- Jun 9, 1947
Paris - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 3, 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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