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Jacques Rouchon (born June 27th 1923, Paris France - died April 15th 1981, Paris, France (aged 57)) was a French photographer.
A student at the Jean-Baptiste Say high school, where he earned his baccalaureate in philosophy, he pursued business studies. In 1942, he joined the resistance and became a prisoner of the Gestapo, a member of the FFI, and was awarded the Croix de la Libération.
At the end of the war, he began photographing the devastated towns around Paris and began canvassing press agencies. Naturally drawn to fashion photography, he took his first photographs with his wife Françoise as his first model. In the meantime, he produced numerous reports in various fields, notably photographing the young Françoise Sagan and Philippe Sollers, then Paul Léautaud at the end of his life, but also Sacha and Geneviève Guitry, Gérard Philipe, Leslie Caron...
He worked at the Rapho agency together with, a.o., Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Sabine Weiss.
Clients included fashion magazines such as Claudine, Point de Vue Images du Monde, France Dimanche, Grazia and ELLE.
In 1959 he opened his own studio, together with his wife Françoise Saingnemorte in Paris, initially in his family appartment and in the early 1960s, he bought premises on Rue de Marignan, in the heart of the Couturiers district.
In 1973 Studio Rouchon moved to the 5th arrondissement in Paris where he collaborated with Henri Mardyks and Jean-Claude Dewolf to set up a joint structure to meet all requests in all areas of advertising photography, each with their own space and a shared lab. Jacques worked there until 1980.
His collected work was published in "Jacques Rouchon - Revoir Paris" (Ed. La Tour Verte 2016).
Jacques Rouchon died on April 15, 1981, from cancer.
He was the father of Patrick and Thierry Rouchon, also photographers who took over the entire premises a few years later and developed a photo studio rental business.