Presenting Claude Azoulay

Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 in Featured, People

Saying he had a career in Paris-Match would be a contradiction or even nonsense: there is no career in Paris-Match, we saw Paris-Match.

Leaving school at the time of the post war when France was rebuilt and when everything seemed possible, Claude Azoulay entered with a few scoops in the world this magazine began to tell the world that would become the reference. It was built in the newspaper run by people from all walks of life and who had in common, the elegance of the look, the art of living, to witness the passion and a sense, inimitable taste to the air time.

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Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Strasberg (Actor's Studio), New York, March 1961

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Brigitte Bardot, St. Tropez, July 1958

In 1954, he wears for a few months the bags of a technical star of the day Willy Rizzoni, and he learns very quickly to use the content. A photographer must see. This enables us to feel and understand. But we learn to see. Watch does not see. Then the student has made his way alone, feeding his passion for his meetings, but also from mistakes.

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Brigitte Bardot, Cote d 'Armor, Brittany 1969

The charming, skilfully lit snapshot, refer to hundredths of seconds, the portrait, he practices every way - as we say in painting - an art whose purpose is unique: “What I photograph, it is man. Joys, loves, joys, celebrations, natural disasters, wars, nothing that concerns man is foreign to me. We like to keep the images of happiness, but it would lie about our human condition. ”

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Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, July 1963

For forty years, he tells us the truth that is available and is so active a part. Witness, but not impassible. If his portraits of celebrities are so alive, it has lived with these figures, he has tamed, and has enchanted “We never photograph well that people that we love. ”

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Carroll Baker, Cannes, May 1965

Give the list of its “moments” of stars, is opening an encyclopedia of film. Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Moreau miss, Liz Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Barbara Streisand, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Francis Bacon, Peter O’Toole, John Wayne or our Johnny. He did not steal their image, they sent their souls in a mirror attentive and caring. So it became a portraitist of our time. In fifteen years, did he not make 200,000 shots of François Mitterand and the two seven, “a man President.” But first a man.

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Carroll Baker, Cannes, May 1965

Since his departure from Paris-Match in 1996, he saw other adventures in the footsteps of a human brother always changing and always fascinating.

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Claudia Cardinale, St. Germain des Pres, "For Magots 2", Paris, September 1961

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Jane Fonda and Michael Caine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, August 1966

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Jane Seberg, Orleans, August 1957

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Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Charlotte and Kate, at home, Verneuil, Paris, September 1976

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Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Charlotte and Kate, at home, Verneuil, Paris, September 1976

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De Gaule and JF Kennedy, Palais De L 'Elysee, Paris, May 1961

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Frederico Fellini and Marcello Mastroiani, Cine Cita, Rome, June 1962

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John Wayne and his daughter Aïssa, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1964

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Juliette Greco, Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr, Kim Novak, David Niven, Maxim's home during the filming of "Bonjour Tristesse", Paris, August 1957

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Milène Demongeot, Jane Seberg, Otto Preminger, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, during the filming of "Bonjour Tristesse", Le Lavandou, French Riviera August 1957

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Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Pierre Barouh and Claude Le Louche, Palme d'or "A Man and a Woman", Cannes, May 1961

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François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau, Jules et Jim, "Côte d'Azur May 1961

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Georges Brassens chez lui, Paris, December 1976

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Peter O 'Toole, Paris, April 1963

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Isabelle Adjani, Comédie Française, Paris, April 1977

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Edith Piaf at the Olympia, Paris, April 1961

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JP Belmondo and Ursula Andress in "Palais des Sports, Paris, November 1966

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Fernandel during the Festival of Estoril, Portugal, March 1957

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Henri Salvador, Paris, May 1957

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Patrick Dewaere home, Paris, May 1977

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Romy Schneider and her son David, Paris, February 1969

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Ray Charles, Paris, October 1961

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Jane Fonda, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, August 1966

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Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford, Cannes, May 1972

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Mastroiani Marcello, Rome, June 1962

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Frank Sinatra, Duo with Canari, Paris, September 1957

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Elysabeth Taylor and her husband Mike Todd, Paris, March 1957

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Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Paris, October 1964

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John Huston, Darryl Zannuck during the filming of "Roots of Heaven" Fort Lamy, Chad, March 1958

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Jane Mansfield, Nice, October 1957

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John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono, Cannes, May 1971

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Bob Dylan, Paris, May 1966

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Elysabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Paris, May 1963

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Moshe Dayan home, Tel-Aviv, November 1976

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Yul Bryner, Studio de Boulogne, Paris, April 1959

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Errol Flynn, Maroua, Cameroun, March 1958

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Ingmar Bergman, Paris, April 1959

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Kirk Douglas, Oregon, USA, September 1966

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Kirk Douglas, Oregon, USA, September 1966

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Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmack during the filming "The Way West" Andrew Mac Laglenne, Oregon, USA, September 1966

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Marc Chagall, Artists House, Jerusalem, October 1977

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Dubuffet in his studio, rue de Vaugirard, Paris, March 1977

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Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, January 1977

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Francis Bacon, Les Halles, Paris, January 1977

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Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, January 1977

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Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, January 1977

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Man Ray at his home, Paris, August 1976

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Tobi Sings

10. Mar, 2009

Nice pictures of old famous people. Now i wonder if these will ever be truly public.

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