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ECOLE - BUVETTE
(School - Refreshment room)
In a small village of Auvergne (France), in the
middle of the sixties. Photograph taken with my friend John
Bruni, I believe even that it is him who took the photograph
as I avoided that geese exit the field...
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Evolution of the symbolism of a
young pornographer.
Extract from a series of five photographs taken
in Clermont-Ferrand (France), in the beginning of the
sixties. Graffitis were found in the basic part of the
principal wall of a great totality of collective
habitations, approximately at one meter of height, that
showed me how old was the author.
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Passing by the ford
In the Bengali gulf, the monsoon fathers floods
with which poeple have to live daily as shows this
photograph taken from the train.
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VIRAGES TERRIFIANTS
(Terrific bends)
During the World Championship of
"Side-cars" in Clermont-Ferrand (France). The passenger
tries desperately to stay on the motor-byke: The effort and
the anguish are modeling his face.
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Under the bridge
In 1968, to access to the superb panorama of
Manhattan from this bank of the East River that strides the
Brooklyn Bridge, it was necessary, as these two walkers, to
stride over puddles, passing by a set of dislocated cars as
this old Chevy. A sight always carefully gummed by
media.
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Face to the tiger
In the heart of Manhattan, short lived face to
face with a tiger.
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Relax
Vichy (France) is a city where sport and
farniente cohabit harmoniously, but I would have never hope
to concretize thus what becomes evident in the image.
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"SURGEON DENTIST"
It is what appears (alas almost invisible on the
screen) on the inscription that figures in straight of the
front door...
It is, of course, in India. Elsewhere, cows do
not go to the dentist...
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"WAR AND PEACE"
"WAR AND PEACE" are present on this monumental
notice but also on the street near Time Square (New -
York).
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Flying saucer
Stockholm in 1965, the modernity of downtown
buildings inspired me a series of views whose interest swung
between international architectural style of an Alvar Aalto
or an Oscar Niemeyer and the numerous Beatniks that haunted
these places. But after processing and enlarging, appeard on
the image this curious defect (?) in form of flying saucer,
followed by an amazing trail. It is as you can see... that
cannot be invented !
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Twin sadhus
In Varanasi (Benarès), the holy city of
India, we strolled along the riverside of Ganga, my friend
Pierre Campana and I, looking for some photographic subject,
when we remarked two sadhus ( Hindu ascetics) only dressed
with a peice of stuff as usually. I suppose that they
understood very fast that we were expecting to photograph
them, for in a trice they laid themselves bare and appeared
in this hieratical posture. What a surprise! Ever we would
not have imagined such a getting up... The adventure ended
to the police-station for a witness warns the police and we
had a lot of difficulties to keep the film into the camera.
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