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40 ans de photojournalisme, Génération agences, by Michel Setboun and Marie Cousin #12

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This image is taken from Michel Setboun’s third book about agencies. Eighty reporters were chosen to comment on one iconic image  taken during their careers. The image we’re publishing today is a picture by Luc Choquer.

This is one my most cherished photos. I was working at the Agence VU’ under Christian Caujolle. We’d known each other since the days when he was in charge of the Libération photo department.

We were doing a project at the Palais Garnier during a production of Faust. I was backstage and the tension was palpable. There was no way anybody could get a camera into the dressing rooms. Suddenly I heard a burst of laughter in the hallway: four carefree extras were having a chat right before they went on stage.

I didn’t choose to include this picture in the exhibition. It didn’t stand out when we were putting it together. But my wife, the photographer Marie-Paule Nègre, insisted that I keep it. Only later did I see it on my contact sheets. I decided to enlarge and print it. And that’s when I understood that this photograph would hold a special place in my career, and in my heart. I decided to exhibit it. Now it’s one of my best selling photographs, a memory of laughter in a time before digital.

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