While France was still struggling with shortages and reconstruction after the passage of the war’s nightmare, Walter Carone was inventing new methods, like Weegee, a new way of taking pictures of crime scenes, celebrities, backstage politics. This new photojournalism would be as close to reality as possible, enrapturing readers of Cinévie, Point de Vue, and especially, Paris Match for whom he was one of the founding pillars, intimate with the actors of breaking news. Confidence, liberty, audaciousness, complicity, creativity, humor and feelings brought him close to his subjects, revealing pictures that would disappear with the arrival of the Paparazzi for whom Walter Carone was both in staunch opposition and a precursor. From Brigitte Bardot to John Kennedy, from Sartre to Gabin, from Grace Kelly to Matisse, everyone seemed happy and proud to be in his viewfinder, as if they were all family friends.
Serge Bramly
EXHIBITIONS
May 24th – June 17h, 2012
Hommage à Walter Carone (1920 – 1982)
Maison Flotte (Sanary)
Stars sur la Côte
Sur le port (Bandol)
France
