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Raymond Cauchetier, Whose Camera Caught the New Wave, Dies at 101
A self-taught photographer, he created indelible images on the sets of a French revolution in film, though he was not recognized for them for decades.
Raymond Cauchetier’s famous photo of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as they were filming Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” (1960). He captured actors in unguarded off-camera moments.Credit.Raymond Cauchetier
Feb. 26, 2021
Raymond Cauchetier, the renowned French photographer who documented the revolutionary early films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other New Wave directors a half-century ago with now-classic portraits, only to go uncredited for decades, died on Monday in Paris. He was 101.