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Background information
"Walter CARONE, one of the pioneers of Paris-Match, grew into his profession from an early age. He learned the trade from his father, an Italian emigrant who specialized in weddings and banquets in Cannes. At the beginning of his career, Walter CARONE took pictures of people on the beach who wanted a souvenir photo. Shortly after the war, he tried his luck in Paris, with all his equipment consisting of a single camera and a few rolls of film.
The black and white photographs that Serge Bramly, a friend of the photographer, has compiled in the out-of-print photo volume 'Photographe' date from the period in which he was particularly active as a photographer: 1946 to the mid-1960s. Half of them are taken from Madame Carone's collection and half from the Paris-Match archive. Some of them are famous pictures, such as the first portraits of Brigitte Bardot as an actress, the photos of Khrushchev and Kennedy and the pictures taken on the occasion of the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. However, many had either only been published once or never before: de Gaulle on the day of the liberation of France, Marlon Brando, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arletty, Cocteau filming 'La Belle et la Béte', the eighteen-year-old Colette..." (© Kehayoff Verlag, 1992)
Content
Even though Walter CARONE (1920-1982) was a famous celebrity photographer who photographed the early Cannes Film Festival extensively, most of the black and white images in Serge Bramly's out-of-print photo volume 'Photographe' show the rough and tumble of street life.
"In their wide-ranging subject matter, which includes pictures of the trial of the mass murderer Petiot and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, but also fashion reports and shots of striking miners or prostitutes, these pictures represent a kind of panorama of the post-war period. They give the viewer a lasting impression of the radical development photography underwent in that era. They show a photographer who mainly emphasized movement, surprise and spontaneity and thus became a great innovator." (© Kehayoff Verlag, 1992)
Additional information
The twenty-five pages of text that precede the 154 black-and-white photos in the book offered here are in German only (no translation).
The dust jacket reproduces photo no. 120 of the book, which shows an enchanting 17+1/2 year old Brigitte Bardot in a dance outfit on the rooftops of Paris. Photos no. 151 and 152 show Brigitte Bardot, her then husband Jacques Charrier and their newborn son Nicolas in 1960. The book ends with photo no. 153 of an equally enchanting Catherine Deneuve aged over 19 and a small photo no. 154 showing the same Catherine Deneuve with photographer Walter CARONE.