About Edouard Levé
Lived 1965 – 2007 (aged 42). Edouard Levé was a French photographer, writer and artist.
Édouard Levé (1 January 1965 – 15 October 2007) was a French writer, photographer, and painter.
Early career Levé was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 1 January 1965. He was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite ESSEC Business School. He began painting in 1991. Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the field (claiming to have burned most of his paintings) and took up color photography upon his return from an influential two-month trip to India in 1995. which pictures small American towns named after cities in other countries. a "collection of fragments" by a "literary cubist."
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Who was Edouard Levé?
French writer and artist (1965–2007)
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Edouard Levé was born on 1 January 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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Edouard Levé died on 15 October 2007 in 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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Edouard Levé was a photographer, writer and artist.
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Edouard Levé was French.
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