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name: "Jean-Jacques Tarbès"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "24 August 1933"
died: "26 May 2000"
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# Jean-Jacques Tarbès

Cinematographer. Born 24 August 1933 in Lourdes, France. Died 26 May 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 24 August 1933, Lourdes, France
- **Died:** 26 May 2000
- **Also known as:** Justin Lenoir, Jérôme Baltard
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3166426, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24457

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Chronicle of a Summer*](https://film.one/film/chronicle-of-a-summer.md) (86)

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## Biography

Jean-Jacques Tarbès was a French cinematographer, screenwriter and occasional actor. Born in Lourdes in 1933, he began working in film in the early 1960s and continued until his death in Paris in 2000.

He is credited as director of photography on the documentary *Chronicle of a Summer* (1961), directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. His other notable credits include *The Swimming Pool* (1969), *Borsalino* (1970), *Two Men in Town* (1973), *Flic Story* (1975), *My New Partner* (1984) and *My New Partner II* (1990). He frequently collaborated with directors Jacques Deray and Claude Zidi, and was sometimes credited under the names Justin Lenoir or Jérôme Baltard.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Chronicle of a Summer* (1961), Fi1m 86, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/chronicle-of-a-summer.md)

## Also known for

- *The Swimming Pool* (1969), Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- *My New Partner* (1984), Director of Photography
- *Borsalino* (1970), Director of Photography
- *Banzaï* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Two Men in Town* (1973), Director of Photography
- *My New Partner II* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Flic Story* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Jackpot!* (1991), Director of Photography

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