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Lionel Delevingne is a photojournalist native of France who has lived in the US since 1975. He is particularly known for his documentary photographs of the anti-nuclear power/safe energy movement. He provided extensive coverage of the Clamshell Alliance occupations of the Seabrook nuclear power plant site in the 1970s, and also chronicled the aftermath of destruction and protest following major accidents at Three Mile Island, US, Chernobyl, Ukraine, and Fukushima, Japan. Many of his photos have been published in books about the safe energy movement, including "No Nukes" by Anna Gyorgy and Friends (South End Press, 1979), and his own photojournalism collection, "To The Village Square". His work has also been featured on covers of major magazines including Nouvel Observateur/Le Sauvage, Le Photographe, Seven Days, New Age, Mother Jones, Washington Post Magazine, New York Times travel section, Irish Times (among many others) and in non-cover work for Time, Newsweek, Die Zeit, the Jerusalem Post, and hundreds of other publications.

He photographed Northampton, Massachusetts in the 1980s;^[1] the photographs were published in book form and some also appeared within a 2004 exhibition of historic photographs of Northampton.^[2] A photo essay of his on Chernobyl appears on the website of Mother Jones.^[3]

His work is in the permanent collections of notable institutions including Fnac Galleries, Paris, France; SUNY Arts Center, Albany, New York; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; Lowell City Library, Lowell, Massachusetts; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts; Forbes Library, Northampton, The Dubois Library Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts has an extensive archive of his photographs. He has received grants from the French Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, Ministere de la Culture as well as the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, and achievement awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and Art Direction Magazine.

In addition to his art and documentary photography, Delevingne has done extensive commercial work. He has shot cover photos for Newsweek, the Washington Post Magazine, New York Times Travel Section, Die Zeit Dossiers, Mother Jones; and In These Times, and inside-the-book magazine and newspaper assignments for National Geographic, Le Figaro, Photo Magazine, Irish Times Sunday Magazine, the Jerusalem Post, Vanity Fair, Yankee, and many others; his photographs have appeared in books published by Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, South End Press, Island Press, and on the covers of "Political Protest and Cultural Revolution (University of California Press, 1991), "Amber Waves and Undertow" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009), "Appeal to Reason: 25 Years of In These Times" (Seven Stories Press, 2002), "Beyond Vietnam" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009). His academic clients have included Harvard Graduate School of Education, Mount Holyoke College, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Southern New Hampshire, the Nieman Center for Journalism at Harvard University, College of the Holy Cross, Phillips Academy Andover, Northfield Mt Hermon School, Phillips Exeter Academy; corporate clients have included Joele Frank/Wilkinson/Brimmer/Katcher, Boston Children's Hospital, Panasonic, Shriner's Hospitals for Crippled Children, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, National Consumer Cooperative Bank, Ciba Geigy Pharmaceutical, Foundation for National Progress, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, and several stock photo houses.

• With Faye S. Frail. Northampton: Reflections on Paradise. Northampton, Mass.: Nouveau Monde Press, 1988.
• With Eloise A. Briere and Nicole Vaget. Franco-American Viewpoints Northampton, Mass.: Nouveau Monde Press/Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Mass. 1988.
• With Steve Turner. "Drylands, A Rural American Saga." Lincoln, Neb.: Nebraska University Press, 2012

"To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima, 1975-2014." Northampton, Mass.: Nouveau Monde Press, in conjunction with Prospecta Press, Weston, CT, 2014. With an Introduction by Anna Gyorgy.

"To the Village Square, An Experiment in American Democracy." Dubois Library, Special Collections, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, January-May, 2012 "Drylands, a Rural American Saga", Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA, 2013 "Glory, Glory" (study of patriotism in the U.S.). State University of New York at Albany, Fine Arts Center; Camerawork, San Francisco; French Library, Boston; FNAC International tour (Nice, Paris, Lille, and Grenoble, France, Brussels, Belgium); French Institute, New York; Columbia University, New York. FORMATTED TO HERE The Franco Americans (photographs and texts): Smith College, Northampton, MA, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts and New Hampshire State-wide Tour, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA FNAC Galleries national tour. World Francophone Summit, Lyon , Affaires Culturelles French Government. Martha (photographs and text): Northampton Center for the Arts, Lionel Delevingne Photographer (a retrospective) Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA Ein Pariser in Amerika Institut Francais, Berlin, Germany, .

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris: "Le Mois de la Photo"; Arles Festival, France, "Ten French Photographers"; New York University, New York: "French Contemporary Photography"; Université d’Angers/Colloque Internationale de la Francophonie; Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Mt Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Association of Picture Professionals, Boston, Massachusetts; Currier Museum, New Hampshire University; World Congress of French Studies(CIEF), Strasbourg, France; American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts; University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "To The Village Square: An Experiment in American Democracy (with Anna Gyorgy)

Delevingne and his work have been covered in extensively in both US and European media, including The New York Times (US), Digraphe (France), Tag Spiegel (Germany), Village Voice (US), Photo Revue, Fr., Channel 8 New Hampshire, Boston Globe, Le Photographe (France), Photo District News (US), Boston Phoenix (US), Photo Magazine (France), Radio Baie des Anges (France), New England Journal of Photography (US), l'Almanach de la Photo (France), Yankee Magazine (US), WFCR (US), Radio Bleue (France), France Inter (France), WFUV (US), WQBK (US), Valley Advocate (US), Albany Times-Union (US).

• Delevingne and Associates, Delevingne's company (with information about Delevingne's photography)
• To The Village Square - Photo Gallery Requires Flash
• To The Village Square
• [1], One of Delevingne's Clamshell alliance Seabrook occupation photos that was published in No Nukes (retrieved July 17, 2014)

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