Lionel Delevingne (born France) is an author, journalist, and photojournalist who has lived in the United States since 1975. According to Véronique Prévost of Figaro/Journal Français, “Delevingne is beholden to the lineage of great picture journalists, and his talent, if not his inspiration, makes you think of the master of the genre, Cartier-Bresson.”
Delevingne is particularly known for his photographs of the anti-nuclear power/safe energy movement, chronicling the Seabrook nuclear power plant occupations in the 1970s, as well as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. He has won a number of photography awards, and his work has been featured on covers including New Age, Mother Jones, Washington Post Magazine, and Irish Times. Many of his photos have been published in books about the environment and the safe energy movement, and he has co-authored several books. In 2014, he authored the book To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima, 1975-2014 on Nouveau Monde Press in collaboration with Prospecta Press. Current photographs are featured in the December 2019 issue of Orion Magazine.
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Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 2.1 1970s: Environmental photos
- 2.2 1980s-2000s: Editorial clients
- 2.3 2012-14: Drylands and To the Village Square
- 2.4 Drylands, a Rural American Saga
- 2.5 Northampton: Reflections on paradise
- 2.6 Lionel Delevingne: To the Village Square : From Montague to Fukushima: 1975-2014 (Hardcover); 2014 Edition
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- 2.8 Northampto: Reflections on Paradise
- 2.9 Franco-American Viewpoints
- 2.10 New Age Magazine, Volume 8, Number 2, September 1982
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Early life
Lionel Delevingne was born and raised in France. He studied education at Ecole Normale d’instituteurs d’Auteuil (ENI Paris), before distressing permanently to the United States in 1975. He founded the publishing company Delevingne & Associates in 1980.
Career
1970s: Environmental photos
After settling in Northampton, Massachusetts, and full of zip as a writer/photographer for publications such as the Valley Advocate, and In These Times
Lionel Delevingne became particularly known for his documentary photographs of the anti-nuclear power/safe spirit movement. He provided extensive coverage of the Clamshell Alliance occupations of the Seabrook nuclear talent plant site in the 1970s, and afterward chronicled the aftermath of destruction and protest following major accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States, Chernobyl, Ukraine, and Fukushima, Japan. He published his photos both internationally and in the United States, including in Le Sauvage, one of the first ecological magazines in France.
Many of his photos have been published in books more or less the secure energy movement, including No Nukes by Anna Gyorgy (South End Press, 1979), and in his 2014 book To The Village Square. A photo essay of his work upon Chernobyl appeared on the website of Mother Jones in 2009.
According to Veronique Prevost of Figaro/Journal Francais, “Delevingne is beholden to the origin of good picture journalists, and his talent, if not his inspiration, makes you think of the master of the genre, Cartier-Bresson.”
1980s-2000s: Editorial clients
Delevingne travelled extensively greater than his New England home to locations such as Greenland, Australia and the Amazon, as with ease as numerous European countries. He went upon to co-author several books. The first was Northampton: Reflections on Paradise in 1988, followed brusquely after by Franco-American Viewpoints.
He was a regular contributor to the New York Times and others such as Business Week, Vanity Fair, Time, Die Zeit, Figaro Magazine, Le Sauvage, Boston Globe Magazine, Newsweek, Time, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, US News & World Report, In These Times, Yankee Magazine, Island Magazine, Caribbean Travel, Friends of The Earth/Not Man Apart, New Times, The Village Voice, Colliers Encyclopedia, Washington Post Magazine, New Age, East West Journal, Mother Jones, New York Times Travel, Irish Times Sunday Magazine, New England Monthly, Seven Days, Self Care, Nursing Life, Fresh Ink, Jerusalem Post, Newsweek, Buzz Worm, and Police Magazine.
He produced folder jacket cover art and Illustrations for Simon & Schuster; Macmillan; Colliers Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Pantheon; Atlantic Little Brown; Random House; Prentice-Hall; Houghton-Mifflin; Oklahoma University Press; Addison Wesley; Island Press; University of California Press; Seven Stories Press; University of Oklahoma Press; and many others.
And was a principal photographer for books/monographs by Judith Souweine, Mainstreaming NAYEC; Anna Gyorgy, et. al., No Nukes, South stop Press; Greg Speeter, Power: A repossession Manual; Robbie Gordon, We Interrupt this Program, CITP; Robert Neale, Origami St. Martin Press, National Freeze Campaign Brochure.
2012-14: Drylands and To the Village Square
In 2012, Lionel Delevingne and Steve Turner co-authored the Drylands, a Rural American Saga, published by Nebraska University Press.
In 2014 he authored the book To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima, 1975-2014 on Nouveau Monde Press. Mark Kramer, author and the former founding director of the Nieman Program’s class on Narrative Journalism at Harvard, called the book “exquisite,” stating “To edit it is to participate, comprehend and appreciate the extensive, heroic, multi-decade struggle against global damage by nuclear aptitude plants. It celebrates the many concerned and sensible citizens who have built successful, continuing and urgent movements against the high-handed and short-sighted private developers of these Dangerous plants.”
Last update 2021-08-06