Émile Savitry, like most photographers of his time, did not make a living from his art but worked regularly for the abundant illustrated press to support himself. This is why he made fashion pictures, was the studio manager of Vogue magazine and collaborated with Le Jardin des Modes. He pinned the elegant figure of Christian Dior at his Parisian home in 1947 when he opened his fashion house. Rare are the photos of the great designer, dreamer, posing in his bourgeois interior lit up like a canvas by Georges de La Tour or sketching new creations with lead pencil. For several collections of the inventor of the “New look” Savitry will take his models through the streets of the Capital to capture movement, magnify the lines and give them life, as did later immense photographers like Richard Avedon, William Klein…
Sophie Malexis
Exhibition curator
Exhibition “Emile Savitry, a photographer from Montparnasse (1903-1967)
produced under the direction of Brigitte Richart, curator of the Granville museums
Richard-Anacréon Museum of Modern Art
Place de l’isthme- 50400 -Granville. Phone 02.33.51.02.94.
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday until the end of June from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and from July 1 to September 30 from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
