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It took two years of work to produce a book that, for the first time, traces the entire career of this great photographer, who passed away in 2014 and is considered one of the most daring of his time.
This monograph, featuring reproductions of his best photographs, situates the life and work of Jean-François Bauret within the context of French photography over the past forty years.
Amid the turmoil of the late 1960s, he caused a scandal quite unwittingly and helped shift attitudes in a society that was then stuck in its ways. He brought a breath of fresh air to advertising by having naked men, pregnant women, and ordinary people pose for him. He photographed numerous figures from the worlds of art, entertainment, and literature—such as Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Nathalie Baye, Michel Tournier, and Laurent Terzieff—asking them to “let go.”
In his studio on Rue des Batignolles in Paris, he pursued a profound and solitary body of work throughout his life, and alongside his commissioned projects, he never ceased to create portraits and undertake increasingly personal explorations of the body and nudity—concepts that tended to merge for him, as evidenced by the book *Portraits nus*, published by Contrejour in 1984. This led him, among other things, to develop several series of photographs in which he invited his subjects to move and create a form of choreography in front of the camera, rather than posing statically.
Published by éditions contrejour
Texts by Gabriel Bauret, foreword by Claude Nori
Foreword by Anne de Stäel
Publication: April 2018
Format: 24.5 x 31 cm
, 192 pages, hardcover
ISBN:979-10-90294-3-25
It took two years of work to produce a book that, for the first time, traces the entire career of this great photographer, who passed away in 2014 and is considered one of the most daring of his time.
This monograph, featuring reproductions of his best photographs, situates the life and work of Jean-François Bauret within the context of French photography over the past forty years.
Amid the turmoil of the late 1960s, he caused a scandal quite unwittingly and helped shift attitudes in a society that was then stuck in its ways. He brought a breath of fresh air to advertising by having naked men, pregnant women, and ordinary people pose for him. He photographed numerous figures from the worlds of art, entertainment, and literature—such as Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Nathalie Baye, Michel Tournier, and Laurent Terzieff—asking them to “let go.”
In his studio on Rue des Batignolles in Paris, he pursued a profound and solitary body of work throughout his life, and alongside his commissioned projects, he never ceased to create portraits and undertake increasingly personal explorations of the body and nudity—concepts that tended to merge for him, as evidenced by the book *Portraits nus*, published by Contrejour in 1984. This led him, among other things, to develop several series of photographs in which he invited his subjects to move and create a form of choreography in front of the camera, rather than posing statically.
Published by éditions contrejour
Texts by Gabriel Bauret, foreword by Claude Nori
Foreword by Anne de Stäel
Publication: April 2018
Format: 24.5 x 31 cm
, 192 pages, hardcover
ISBN:979-10-90294-3-25
