Sometimes the cinema images that most stick in our heads are not from the films themselves.
One of the most enduring photos from the early French New Wave is of Jean Seberg, mouth open in a toothy laugh, walking down the Champs-Elysées alongside a gangling, fedora’d Jean-Paul Belmondo. This became the much-loved poster image from Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960), but it is not from the film, or even a still: it was shot between takes by Raymond Cauchetier, the man who belatedly became famous as the defining photographer of the nouvelle vague.
Cauchetier, who has died of Covid-19 at the age of 101, worked on the shoots of many key films of the early New Wave period, including Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962) and La peau douce (1964), Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962), Jacques Demy’s Lola (1961) and Jacques Rozier’s superb but overlooked Adieu Philippine (1962).
Raymond Cauchetier, who photographed French New Wave, dies at 101 of covid-19
Harrison Smith, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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1of5A photo Raymond Cauchetier took on the set of François Truffaut s 1962 movie Jules and Jim, showing Jeanne Moreau - with a fake mustache - chased by Henri Serre and Oskar Werner.Raymond Cauchetier/La Galerie de l InstantShow MoreShow Less
2of5Raymond Cauchetier took this 1959 photo of Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Paris during the filming of Breathless. Raymond Cauchetier/La Galerie de l InstantShow MoreShow Less
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4of5Raymond Cuachetier and his wife, Kaoru, in 2019 look at his notebook from August 1959, when Jean-Luc Godard was shooting Breathless in Paris.Julia Gragnon/La Galerie de l InstantShow MoreShow Less
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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.
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