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Pierre de Fenoÿl entered the world of Photo-reportage in the early 1960s. In the 
lift of the Plaza Athénée, where he got a job as bellboy at the age of…

Pierre de Fenoÿl set off for New York in late 1971 with a contract as picture editor for the magazine Photo. He stayed for one year, visiting museums and galleries,…

Following his trip to India, Pierre de Fenoÿl Founded, with Charles-Henri Favrod,
the agency vu (which became viva), whose members included William Klein, Edouard Boubat, Guy le Querrec, Hervé Gloaguen, Claude…

In 1983, Pierre de Fenoÿl was awarded a grant from the Centre national de la photographie to photograph Egypt, following in the footsteps of Félix Teynard and Maxime Du Camp,…

For Pierre de Fenoÿl photography was the art of receiving, unlike the arts of extractionthat are painting and literature. To achieve this state of reception, he practiced intensively the act…