JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BAURET
It took two years of work to produce a book which, for the first time, retraces the entire career of this great photographer, who died in 2014 and was considered one of the most daring of his time.
This monograph, which reproduces his best photographs, places the life and work of Jean-François Bauret in the context of French photography over the last forty years.
In the hustle and bustle of the late '60s, he caused a scandal in spite of himself, and helped to change mentalities in a sclerotic society. He brought a breath of freedom to advertising, posing nude men and pregnant women, as well as ordinary people. He portrayed numerous figures from the worlds of art, entertainment and literature, including Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Nathalie Baye, Michel Tournier and Laurent Terzieff, whom he asked to "let go".
In his studio on the rue des Batignolles in Paris, he pursued a profound and solitary work throughout his life. In addition to his commissions, he never ceased to produce portraits, and to undertake increasingly personal research into the body and nudity, which tended to merge for him, as evidenced by the book Portraits nus published by Contrejour in 1984. Among other things, this led him to develop several series of shots in which he invited his subjects to move and choreograph themselves in front of the camera, instead of 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, hardback
ISBN: 979-10-90294-3-25
It took two years of work to produce a book which, for the first time, retraces the entire career of this great photographer, who died in 2014 and was considered one of the most daring of his time.
This monograph, which reproduces his best photographs, places the life and work of Jean-François Bauret in the context of French photography over the last forty years.
In the hustle and bustle of the late '60s, he caused a scandal in spite of himself, and helped to change mentalities in a sclerotic society. He brought a breath of freedom to advertising, posing nude men and pregnant women, as well as ordinary people. He portrayed numerous figures from the worlds of art, entertainment and literature, including Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Nathalie Baye, Michel Tournier and Laurent Terzieff, whom he asked to "let go".
In his studio on the rue des Batignolles in Paris, he pursued a profound and solitary work throughout his life. In addition to his commissions, he never ceased to produce portraits, and to undertake increasingly personal research into the body and nudity, which tended to merge for him, as evidenced by the book Portraits nus published by Contrejour in 1984. Among other things, this led him to develop several series of shots in which he invited his subjects to move and choreograph themselves in front of the camera, instead of 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, hardback
ISBN: 979-10-90294-3-25
It took two years of work to produce a book which, for the first time, retraces the entire career of this great photographer, who died in 2014 and was considered one of the most daring of his time.
This monograph, which reproduces his best photographs, places the life and work of Jean-François Bauret in the context of French photography over the last forty years.
In the hustle and bustle of the late '60s, he caused a scandal in spite of himself, and helped to change mentalities in a sclerotic society. He brought a breath of freedom to advertising, posing nude men and pregnant women, as well as ordinary people. He portrayed numerous figures from the worlds of art, entertainment and literature, including Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Nathalie Baye, Michel Tournier and Laurent Terzieff, whom he asked to "let go".
In his studio on the rue des Batignolles in Paris, he pursued a profound and solitary work throughout his life. In addition to his commissions, he never ceased to produce portraits, and to undertake increasingly personal research into the body and nudity, which tended to merge for him, as evidenced by the book Portraits nus published by Contrejour in 1984. Among other things, this led him to develop several series of shots in which he invited his subjects to move and choreograph themselves in front of the camera, instead of 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, hardback
ISBN: 979-10-90294-3-25
