Jean-Francois Jonvelle - Les 100 Plus Belles Photos - 2011

Jean-François Jonvelle : Les 100 Plus Belles Photos / The 100 Best Photographs

Format XL 35cm x 24,5cm - 2011 - French/English - Hardback - 200 p - Very good condition (see the attached photos)

In homage to Jean-François Jonvelle, who died in 2002, this book presents the one hundred most beautiful photographs of a man who loved women. Jonvelle's style is contemporary; he seeks a poetry of the everyday that is never trivial or sophisticated, because his gaze is kind and he strives to portray women as free, natural, and moving.
As Frédéric Beigbeder wrote: "Jonvelle's women are fresh because they don't know we're looking at them."
Amongst the models are some some famous French actresses : Sandrine Bonnaire, Zabou Breitman, Béatrice Dalle, Arielle Dombasle, Agnès Jaoui, Valérie Kaprisky, Emmanuelle Seignier, Karin Viard and others

Jean-François Jonvelle was born in the Provençal town of Cavaillon in 1943. "When I photograph a woman," he used to say, "I want her to know that she is the most beautiful woman on earth, because a women who feels beautiful really is the most beautiful woman in the world." He always worked around women, admitting freely that his only subject was the women he loved. In the 1980s Jonvelle rose to prominence as the photographer for a publicity campaign that changed the face of French advertising and gave rise to the popular French catchphrase, 'Demain j'enlève le bas' ('Tomorrow the bottom comes off'). His photography for campaigns by Huit, Levi's, Barbara and Princesse Tam Tam was also to prove extremely influential. In 1998, in preparation for his last film, Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick was considering the question of the most 'real' way to film women. Having found one of Jonvelle's books, he invited him to come to Los Angeles with some of his pictures so that they could talk about them. And so it was that the scene set in the leading man's bathroom, with Nicole Kidman's character sitting on the toilet, was directly inspired by a Jonvelle photograph.

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