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= Alison Lloyd (artist) = Alison Lloyd (1957-2024) was a British artist, scholar and activist. She was known particularly for her work in and contributions to walking art and her photography.

Career
Lloyd studied art at University of Cardiff, where she focused on photography. She would photograph herself, 'documenting how a woman chooses to be in the world, how she gets ready to go out at night, how she is engaging with sex or relationships.' Though, she used herself for the photographs, she consider the work to convey 'a generic young woman', as opposed to being explicitly about herself.

While Lloyd's work was not always explicitly political or activist, she considered it an important part of her work and life. She has stated that she was drawn 'to collective action as revolutionary action' and noted that the 'problem of the world is capitalism.'

"Alison Lloyds’ practice involved walking alone, for considerable distances, keeping off the paths, striding and ‘contouring’ through moorland and mountainous areas. She composed photographs of herself with the paraphernalia of hill walking; map, compass, rucksack and vacuum flask. These tools of walking were often captured around the margins of her photographs. Lloyd emphasised this solitary pursuit by using a cable release or timer to take the photographs of herself walking, or as she liked to name it, contouring. The walking usually centred around stopping off points that she had navigated to with compass and map. This might have been amongst moorland grasses, crouching within a peat hag or following the stream in one of the narrow cloughs in the Dark Peak, Derbyshire.

Alison Lloyd was an artist based in Nottingham whose extensive career also included curating and commissioning exhibitions, catalogues and projects with individuals such as Stephen Willats, Marina Abramović and Sarah Staton’s Supastore presenting early works by Jeremy Deller, Mathew Higgs and Jessica Voorsanger within a freelance and institutional context.

Through a passage of movement incorporating walking and dancing Alison Lloyd had documented elements of her life since 1976. Recent activity included; a residency at Outlandia, Glen Nevis in 2013, a solo exhibition at TG Gallery, Nottingham, 2014, a walking art commission for Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and The Grand Tour, 2015, production of Act 1 – 1 Act at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art’s Project Space, 2016 which was installed at Winch Gallery, Southend, 2017 and an Instagram Takeover of Edgework in May 2018. Alison completed her PhD at Loughborough University, School of the Arts, English and Drama. Her area of research was Walking, Women and Art."

= Ann Liv Young =

Liv Young has reported having a difficult childhood. Her "mom worked all the time" and her "dad struggled with substance abuse"

She went to art school at the age 14, and later studied in London at a conservatory.

= Alexandra Pecker = Alexandra Pecker (1906-1986) was a French actress and author.

Pecker was the daughter of Russian émigrés. She studied law for a period of time, and was also a performer at the Folies-Bergère, and a beauty queen. :96

In 1926, while filming Le Juif errant, she met Antonin Artaud, and would also work with him on the film The Passion of Joan of Arc. :96 She would go on to perform in multiple productions at Artaud's Theatre Alfred Jarry, playing two roles in August Strindberg's A Dream Play. :96 They had a lifelong relationship that was both personal and professional. :96

= Max Joly = Max Joly (born Max Emilland Jean Joly) is a French director and screenwriter.

Director

 * 1936: Aux jardins de Murcie (co-directed with Marcel Gras)
 * 1952: Éternel espoir

Screenwriter

 * 1936: Aux jardins de Murcie
 * 1947: Pour une nuit d'amour (director Edmond T. Gréville)
 * 1947: Le diable souffle (director Edmond T. Gréville)
 * 1952: Éternel espoir