Agnes varda biography

Agnès Varda (30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a photographer, film director, Paris-based key figure in modern film history, and one of the world’s leading filmmakers.

Agnes varda biography

Agnès Varda was also a professor of film and documentaries at The European Graduate School / EGS. She was born on May 30, 1928, in Ixelles, Belgium, with the slightly different name of Arlette Varda. Her father is Greek, and her mother is of French origins.

She escaped from Belgium in 1940 to go live in Sète, France, with her family where she spent her teenager years. Agnès Varda studied at the École du Louvre with a focus on art history and photography at the École des Beaux-Arts.

She then went on to work at the Théâtre National Populaire in Paris as a photographer, which was directed by the famous French actor and filmmaker Jean Villar. In a 2009 interview, speaking about her childhood and how it relates to her career, she shared the following:

While still in Paris, she met her future hu