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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Children Pushing a Snowball, Manchester, 1968, 1968.
- Credit: Shirley Baker/courtesy of James Hyman Gallery
Hampstead Garden Suburb art collector James Hyman is rounding off the year selling yet more artwork in aid of charity.
James Hyman Gallery has pledged 50 percent of profits from the online fundraising sale over the Christmas period will go to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust.
Running from December 7 - 31, the 54 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints include work by Shirley Baker, Tacita Dean, Walker Evans, Tony Ray-Jones, Edouardo Paolozzi, Frank Auerbach. They are available to buy at discounted prices ranging from £150 for a limited edition book of photographs by Linda McCartney to £35,000 for a large-scale copper sculpture by Zhang Huan.