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Georges Rousse (French, b) is a photographer, painter, and installation artist, who lives and works in Paris, France..
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Georges Rousse is a French artist and photographer.
Background
He was born in 1947 in Paris, where he currently lives and works.
Career
When he was 9 years old, Rousse received the legendary Kodak Brownie camera as a Christmas gift.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer.Since then, the camera has never left his side. While attending medical school in Nice, he decided to study professional photography and printing techniques, then opened his own studio dedicated to architectural photography.
Soon, his passion for the medium led to devote himself entirely to photography, following in the footsteps of such great American masters as Steichen, Stieglitz and Ansel Adams.
After he discovered Land Art, Malevich"s Black Square Against a White Field"s work.
Georges Rousse altered his relationship to photography, practicing an approach that shifted the relationship of painting to space.
He began making installati