Denise Colomb, born Loeb, was a French photographer born in 1902 in Paris, who died in the same city in 2004. She took her first portraits during a stay in Indochina in the years 1935-1937, where she accompanied her husband, Gilbert Cahen, a naval engineer. He gave her first camera, a Super-Nettel with a 50mm Zeiss lens. She later worked with a Leica camera and, after the war, a Rolleiflex. During World War II, to escape anti-Semitic raids, her family took refuge in the Drôme region in 1943 under the false name "Colomb," which she adopted as a pseudonym in 1947 as a photographer. In 1948 she visited the In 1948 she visited the West Indies at the invitation of Aimé Césaire who, having discovered her photographic work on Indochina, entrusted her with her first professional photographic mission on the occasion of the centenary of the abolition of slavery. On this occasion, she traveled to Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique (a journey she would resume in 1958 following a commission from the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique). She subsequently undertook numerous trips to India, Israel and Europe. She contributed to various magazines (Le Leicaïste, Regards, Le Photographe, Réalités) and carried out commissioned work for the magazine Point de Vue – Images du Monde. It was with Antonin Artaud that she began a long series of artist portraits in 1947. Her brother, Pierre Loeb, who owned a renowned gallery in Paris, introduced her to painters and sculptors. Following Artaud, she would photograph Nicolas de Staël (a few months before his suicide), Giacometti, Picasso sitting on the stairs, and Max Ernst posing in front of the rooftops of Paris, as well as some of the most iconic artists of the mid-century art scene. Whether photographing celebrities or the anonymous, this passion for the face was the guiding principle of her work. On November 18, 1991, she donated her work to the French state (52,000 negatives, 2,600 period prints, and her personal documentation). Since that date, the Photographic Heritage Association, under the supervision of the Department of Architecture and Heritage (Ministry of Culture and Communication), has preserved and disseminated the Denise Colomb collection. Denise Colomb died on January 1, 2004, in Paris, at the age of 101. The Wall House Museum would like to thank for the development of this exhibition Katarina Jacobson, director of the Saint-John Perse Museum in Pointe-à-Pitre, Michèle Robin-Clerc, elected representative for urban planning and development for the commune of Pointe-à-Pitre, and Matthieu Rivallin, head of the photography department at the Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie in Charenton-le-Pont.