At the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, New York became the Eldorado of fashion photography.
Many French photographers rushed there.
They were almost all barely 25 years old and all met in the mythical place of the time: Carnegie Hall.
Claude Guillaumin was one of them and he writes:
From 1967, New York saw the arrival of Frank Horvat for Glamour, André Carrara for Mademoiselle, Jean-Paul Goude for Esquire, Pierre Houlès, Claude Guillaumin for Glamour, Mike Reinhardt, Patrick Demarchelier, Guy Le Baube, Michel Momy, Jacques Davis.
The Carnegie Hall included in addition to the concert hall located at 57th Street, dance studios, music and living quarters for artists with a special entrance at 881 7th Avenue.
An “elevator man” maneuvered the elevator from the 1st to the 12th floor day and night and in particular one of them, Jimmy about 70 years old who smoked his joint every day.
The corridors were bathed in music or vocalizations depending on the floor.
In 1969 Bill Cunningham, who had 3 studios, sublet one to Pierre Houlès and myself on the twelfth floor, then later to Mike Reinhardt and Toscani.