We learned of the death of Jean-Claude Lemagny who was one of the mythical directors of photography of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Claude Nori sent us this text.
Dear Jean Claude,
You leave discretly as you have always done.
And you leave a huge void in the world of French photography that you revitalized in the early 1970s.
At first, with your little goatee and your glasses, your impeccable suit and waistcoats, your rounded and proud bust, you impressed me. Then I got to know you when you came to the Contrejour gallery to see our exhibitions, then within the Cahiers de la photographie that we had created with Bernard Plossu and Gilles Mora, then when we were preparing your book on Creative Photography that you almost invented.
