Catherine Deudon was born in 1940 in Orléans (France). To a father working as a pharmacist and to a mother who was a former gym teacher and who became a housewife after her wedding, Catherine Deudon became interested in politics by the age of 16 through the Algerian War and after the reading of “Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir. In the 1960s, she worked as the assistant to Denise Colomb, a French photographer. She observed the May 1968 events without taking part to them. She also published a few photographs in “L’Idiot International”, a French newspaper. She discovered the feminist movement “Mouvement de la Libération des femmes” in 1970 and began to photograph its demonstrations, mainly in Paris in 1970-1971, followed by the “Ni putes ni soumises” movement in the 2010s. Her photographs are distributed by the Roger-Viollet agency, and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand has regularly bought many of them.
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