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| 1. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1974 At 6 pm in summer, Sommithres, France Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) |
| 2. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1949 Orpheus, the Black Riders (French Riot Police) Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "Later shown in Cocteau's 'Orpheus', in the negative." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 3. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1949, May Juliette Greco and Miles Davis, Pleyel Concert Hall, Paris Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "Anyone who hasn't been fascinated by Juliette Gréco between 1945 and à raise your hand." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 4. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1954 The fewer the shoes, the more shoeblacks! (heard everywhere) Sao Paolo, Brazil Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "Four days and four nights of wild Carnival, where poor and rich, disguised, rub shoulders and help to forget a year of tragic inequality." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 5. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1950 Monsieur Dior, Paris Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "For the benefit of the photographer, Christian Dior, gentle and patient, Madame Marguerite, and Madame Bricard, pretend to model the 'Sweetheart' dress on Alla." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 6. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1955 Sewing machine, Kuwait Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "I waited five years for this woman. She had escaped me one evening in December 1950 in Marrakech, for lack of light and especiallyà a camera, and I raged against this lost photograph. I found her again in Kuwait, the first picture on my first roll, the afternoon of my arrival. What luck! Only by sleight of hand did I succeed in hiding and saving this film that the male Kuwaitis, pious and courteous but determined, wanted to confiscate in the name of the precepts of the Koran. Despite the amusing rolling stone context, this picture says more about ancient statuary than about the anecdote." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 7. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1956 The parish priest Ramonet, Ile de Sein Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "I left for the Ile de Sein with a book on Gurdjieff that was supposed to get me back into shape. I barely looked at it. Thanks to Felix Guilcher, a real, lyrical and discreet hero, a rare friend discovered over there, to a Parish Priest, and to all the islanders, more islander than Breton. I soon felt quite at home, something quite unexpected, indeed inconceivable. Happy and calm, I was protected by these natural, wholesome, egregious people who look you straight in the eye. I was protected from the distant continent by a superb and pitiless sea. On Sein, I finally told myself 'they'll never get me'. I'll never be able to repay my debt to the Sein islanders for what they gave me." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 8. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1954 Merry-go-round, Marq en Bar£ul, Northern France Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) |
| 9. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1954 Little girl with motorcycle, Northern France Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "For years I neglected this photograph, and one day it jumped out at me, and later, I had a little girl of my own, just like her." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 10. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1951 Tuareg, Southern Sahara Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "One hour before the photograph they were posed in this way, in front of their tent. One hour later, in total darkness, they had not moved, like nomads springing out of nowhere, immobile in the mid-day sun, along the desert trails, waiting for the passage of some random caravan which they could join." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 11. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1951 Doctor Schweitzer and his pelican, Lambarene, Gabon Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "The Americans who discovered - or invented-him made him the archetype of the Reader's Digest Most Unforgettable Character I ever met. That he certainly was, but mainly for other reasons. A charming, tyrannical Vercingetorix, paradoxical and dogmatic, this droll and malicious 'artist' took himself for the real Doctor Schweitzer. At the time I had not yet encountered the genuine 'Protestant'. Today I have. Hence I no longer find the 'good Doctors' Spartan rigor and canny showmanship contradictory." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 12. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1951 Tuxedo on the road to Dolisie, French Equatorial Africa Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "By what mysterious ways did this Motsch hat and this evening dress finally reach someone on whom they go so perfectly." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 13. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1951 Newsstand, London, England Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "The newspapers seller of the City gets dressed as his customers." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 14. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1953 Bettina, the Fairest, Paris Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "Van Cleef and Arpels window, Place Vendome." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 15. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1954, March Belem, Brésil Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "What of more restful than this street of what was in the time of Sarah Bernhardt the spiritual capital of Brazil. And it is nevertheless the street of the prostitutes." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 16. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1955 Making faces, Kotzebue, Alaska Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "10 pm in broad daylight. ALL the world's children enjoy the same jokes." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 17. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1950 Country doctor, the delivery, Creuse, France Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "The sixth child was born while the father was out hunting. Taking no chances, grandma had knitted a pink and blue swaddling band. Boy or girl?" (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 18. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1954 Miners dressing room, Lens, France Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "In their changing rooms, the miners suspend alternately their city clothes and their "working blacks" from long ropes insured by symbolism padlock. We would say ourselves in the wing of a theater of the flies of which extraordinary human sets hung." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 19. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1960 Backstage at the Folies BergÞres, Paris Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) |
| 20. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1953, 10 December New York Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) "Arrival at 6 am on the 'Liberté'." (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
| 21. |  | Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 1945 A little Edith Piaf of the Palais Royal, Paris Gelatin silver print Galerie Agathe Gaillard © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France) |