Claude Nori’s new book, Un photographe amoureux, has just been published by Contrejour.
Photographer, publisher, founder of Contrejour and the Terre d’Images festival, Nori remembers his first steps into the world of photography and the geography of feelings. Each page recreates the heady atmosphere of Toulouse in the late 1960s.
During the long summer of 1969, Claude Nori met girls who gladly took of their clothes to be photographed. Falling in love helped him refine his vision. Then came staged photographs, happenings, nude poses in nature and the wild visual experiments with his accomplices. These joyful desperados of the lens spent sleepless nights unraveling the mysteries of the darkroom. In cafés and basements blaring rock music, the young people showed their sensitivity and their contempt for convention. Leftists, artists, anarchists, daddy’s boys, beautiful hippies: they were all looking for a way to live differently from their parents. When the weather was nice, they wondered where they would spend their holidays. Some took the boat to Ibiza or Bright, others took the road to Biarritz or Narbonne. When autumn came, some chose Paris as a destination for their artistic passions.
More than a novel, Un photographe amoureux is a document of a carefree and creative time from which the Photographie Nouvelle would be born in the coming decades and revive French culture.
BOOK
Claude Nori, Un photographe amoureux
11 x 18 cm
168 pages
16 photographs
Broché
