Galerie Anne & Just Jaekin, in Paris, is paying tribute to this impetuous photo-reporter.
The life and career of Claude Azoulay cannot be limited to a few lines. The common denominator for his entire work: “Happiness, lovers, joys, parties, wars, natural catastrophes, nothing that concerns humanity is foreign to me,” he states. Celebrity photographer and major reporter for the magazine Paris Match for more than forty years, this multilingual man crisscrossed the planet North, East,West and South. Celebrities, politicians and Chiefs of State, popes, stars, artists, refugees, rebels, and the anonymous: he photographed them all. He was there wherever the current events called him, covering wars as well as natural disasters, news stories and cultural, sporting, and political events.
His pictures found themselves in international publications such as Life, Look, Stern, and Epoca. Passionate and curious about human nature, he lead his life a mile a minute towards being both an intimate and adventurous photographer, often to the point of not being able to unpack his suitcase. He would take a few uppercuts along the way, and his life was certainly not a long, calm river, but today he claims “to regret nothing” except not having seen his children grow up.
The photographs of this true adventurer find themselves in this exhibition in the form of a tip of the hat that Claude Azoulay offered to some men and women, famous and anonymous, who crossed his path between the 1950s and 1990s. A large part of the thirty-odd images have never before been exhibited .
Claude Azoulay, Chapeau !
From March 9 through April 28, 2018
19, rue Guénégaud
75006 Paris
France
www.jaeckin.fr
