Amazing Data

Saying he had a career in Paris-Match would be a contradiction or even nonsense: there is no career in Paris-Match, we saw Paris-Match.

Leaving school at the time of the post war when France was rebuilt and when everything seemed possible, Claude Azoulay entered with a few scoops in the world this magazine began to tell the world that would become the reference. It was built in the newspaper run by people from all walks of life and who had in common, the elegance of the look, the art of living, to witness the passion and a sense, inimitable taste to the air time.

Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Strasberg (Actor's Studio), New York, March 1961

Brigitte Bardot, St. Tropez, July 1958

In 1954, he wears for a few months the bags of a technical star of the day Willy Rizzoni, and he learns very quickly to use the content. A photographer must see. This enables us to feel and understand. But we learn to see. Watch does not see. Then the student has made his way alone, feeding his passion for his meetings, but also from mistakes.

Brigitte Bardot, Cote d 'Armor, Brittany 1969

The charming, skilfully lit snapshot, refer to hundredths of seconds, the portrait, he practices every way – as we say in painting – an art whose purpose is unique: “What I photograph, it is man. Joys, loves, joys, celebrations, natural disasters, wars, nothing that concerns man is foreign to me. We like to keep the images of happiness, but it would lie about our human condition. ”

Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, July 1963

For forty years, he tells us the truth that is available and is so active a part. Witness, but not impassible. If his portraits of celebrities are so alive, it has lived with these figures, he has tamed, and has enchanted “We never photograph well that people that we love. ”

Carroll Baker, Cannes, May 1965

Give the list of its “moments” of stars, is opening an encyclopedia of film. Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Moreau miss, Liz Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Barbara Streisand, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Francis Bacon, Peter O’Toole, John Wayne or our Johnny. He did not steal their image, they sent their souls in a mirror attentive and caring. So it became a portraitist of our time. In fifteen years, did he not make 200,000 shots of François Mitterand and the two seven, “a man President.” But first a man.

Carroll Baker, Cannes, May 1965

Since his departure from Paris-Match in 1996, he saw other adventures in the footsteps of a human brother always changing and always fascinating.

Claudia Cardinale, St. Germain des Pres, "For Magots 2", Paris, September 1961

Jane Fonda and Michael Caine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, August 1966

Jane Seberg, Orleans, August 1957

Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Charlotte and Kate, at home, Verneuil, Paris, September 1976

Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Charlotte and Kate, at home, Verneuil, Paris, September 1976

De Gaule and JF Kennedy, Palais De L 'Elysee, Paris, May 1961

Frederico Fellini and Marcello Mastroiani, Cine Cita, Rome, June 1962

John Wayne and his daughter Aïssa, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1964

Juliette Greco, Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr, Kim Novak, David Niven, Maxim's home during the filming of "Bonjour Tristesse", Paris, August 1957

Milène Demongeot, Jane Seberg, Otto Preminger, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, during the filming of "Bonjour Tristesse", Le Lavandou, French Riviera August 1957

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Pierre Barouh and Claude Le Louche, Palme d'or "A Man and a Woman", Cannes, May 1961

François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau, Jules et Jim, "Côte d'Azur May 1961

Georges Brassens chez lui, Paris, December 1976

Peter O 'Toole, Paris, April 1963

Isabelle Adjani, Comédie Française, Paris, April 1977

Edith Piaf at the Olympia, Paris, April 1961

JP Belmondo and Ursula Andress in "Palais des Sports, Paris, November 1966

Fernandel during the Festival of Estoril, Portugal, March 1957

Henri Salvador, Paris, May 1957

Patrick Dewaere home, Paris, May 1977

Romy Schneider and her son David, Paris, February 1969

Ray Charles, Paris, October 1961

Jane Fonda, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, August 1966

Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford, Cannes, May 1972

Mastroiani Marcello, Rome, June 1962

Frank Sinatra, Duo with Canari, Paris, September 1957

Elysabeth Taylor and her husband Mike Todd, Paris, March 1957

Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Paris, October 1964

John Huston, Darryl Zannuck during the filming of "Roots of Heaven" Fort Lamy, Chad, March 1958

Jane Mansfield, Nice, October 1957

John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono, Cannes, May 1971

Bob Dylan, Paris, May 1966

Elysabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Paris, May 1963

Moshe Dayan home, Tel-Aviv, November 1976

Yul Bryner, Studio de Boulogne, Paris, April 1959

Errol Flynn, Maroua, Cameroun, March 1958

Ingmar Bergman, Paris, April 1959

Kirk Douglas, Oregon, USA, September 1966

Kirk Douglas, Oregon, USA, September 1966

Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmack during the filming "The Way West" Andrew Mac Laglenne, Oregon, USA, September 1966

Marc Chagall, Artists House, Jerusalem, October 1977

Dubuffet in his studio, rue de Vaugirard, Paris, March 1977

Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, January 1977

Francis Bacon, Les Halles, Paris, January 1977

Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, January 1977

Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, January 1977

Man Ray at his home, Paris, August 1976

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