synopsis
This album presents black and white photographs in which femininity is sublimated by the famous French photographer; text by Bernard Chapuis, photos in b.w.
technical information
Publisher : La Martinière
1979
102 pages
dimensions : 24 x 30 cm
1979
102 pages
dimensions : 24 x 30 cm
about Jean-François Jonvelle
Jean-François Jonvelle was born in 1943 in Cavaillon. Later, he sold his famous melons to buy a Hasselblad.
No studies worthy of the name, just a certificate. He takes his inspiration here and there, in painting from Balthus, Bacon, Schiele, but his real culture comes from cinema with Mankiewicz, Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Arthur Penn, Minnelli, Hitchcock, Marcel l'Herbier, Tourneur, more recently “Brazil” by Terry Gilliam which he admitted to having seen eleven times. His favorite film: “Jules et Jim” by François Truffaut.
In 1959, it was Georges Glasberg, photographer, who introduced him to photography by taking him on a tour of France's cathedrals, a passion for photography that would never leave him. At the age of 20 he became the assistant of the American photographer Richard Avedon. He then became independent, always working around women.
His little sister, his mother to whom he has always been very close, and his grandmother will be his “first consenting victims”.
No studies worthy of the name, just a certificate. He takes his inspiration here and there, in painting from Balthus, Bacon, Schiele, but his real culture comes from cinema with Mankiewicz, Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Arthur Penn, Minnelli, Hitchcock, Marcel l'Herbier, Tourneur, more recently “Brazil” by Terry Gilliam which he admitted to having seen eleven times. His favorite film: “Jules et Jim” by François Truffaut.
In 1959, it was Georges Glasberg, photographer, who introduced him to photography by taking him on a tour of France's cathedrals, a passion for photography that would never leave him. At the age of 20 he became the assistant of the American photographer Richard Avedon. He then became independent, always working around women.
His little sister, his mother to whom he has always been very close, and his grandmother will be his “first consenting victims”.
First muse and accomplice, Tina Sportolaro, whom he met in 1982 and with whom he created some of his most beautiful images. Béatrice came in 1985. Then Maud Marker, who unlike the other women with whom he shared moments of life, did not want to be photographed. She, in a candy pink Chanel suit, him in jeans and sneakers. She is the opposite of the women he is usually attracted to. She took care of the castings, advised him in his choices and became his agent until 2000.
He readily said that his favorite subject was the women he loved. He is notably the author of the photos of the advertising campaign which revolutionized advertising displays in the 80s "Tomorrow I take off the stockings".
In 1998 he published a photo album which was a sort of encyclopedia of cleavage, entitled "Balconies" and described himself as "a sentimental sex freak, a born voyeur". “When I photograph a woman,” he said, “I want her to know that she is the most beautiful on earth, because a woman who feels beautiful is truly the most beautiful woman in the world. My happiness, it is also to have never hindered my freedom, nor lost my freshness, my moment".
He left us on January 16, 2002.
He readily said that his favorite subject was the women he loved. He is notably the author of the photos of the advertising campaign which revolutionized advertising displays in the 80s "Tomorrow I take off the stockings".
In 1998 he published a photo album which was a sort of encyclopedia of cleavage, entitled "Balconies" and described himself as "a sentimental sex freak, a born voyeur". “When I photograph a woman,” he said, “I want her to know that she is the most beautiful on earth, because a woman who feels beautiful is truly the most beautiful woman in the world. My happiness, it is also to have never hindered my freedom, nor lost my freshness, my moment".
He left us on January 16, 2002.
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