Violette Cornelius (17 March 1919,

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– 23 January 1998, Saint-Maximin, France) was a Dutch photographer and resistance fighter during World War II. During the war, she joined an artist's resistance group and contributed to clandestine magazines. After the war, she specialized in

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. She collaborated on many business photo books, including one about Hoogovens IJmuiden with Cas Oorthuys and others. In 1957 she made a book about the city of

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together with the author Jan Elburg. She then went, often with colleague Sean Wellesley Miller, capturing the migration to urban areas in developing countries. Later, she published reportages about

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, and some countries in Africa. She worked with

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in 1956 to document the situation of Hungarian refugees travelling to Austria.

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