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Picasso à l’œuvre. Dans l’objectif de David Douglas Duncan

Directed by Stéphanie Ansari and Tatyana Franck

The relationship between Picasso and photographers could give way to a whole field in litterature: we know of his friendship with Brassaï, Doisneau, Lucien Clergue, Cartier-Bresson, André Villers… The one that grew with David Douglas Duncan, though in the later years (it was in 1956, Picasso was then 75 years old and the photographer, a veteran of the wars of Korea and Vietnam, was 40 years old), was extraordinary in its capacity to record every day life. We see Picasso eating fish (without leaving a gram of meat on the bone!), setting out ceramics, holding the jump rope for his children or simply smoking his Gauloise cigarette… Death did not dilute the friendship: Duncan spent a week to immortalise the master’s workshop the day following his death and he dedicated himself to reproduce his works up to the 80s. 

Picasso à l’œuvre. Dans l’objectif de David Douglas Duncan, directed by Stéphanie Ansari and Tatyana Franck, Gallimard, 2012, 264 p., 39 €.

Picasso à l’œuvre. Dans l’objectif de David Douglas Duncan - Directed by Stéphanie Ansari and Tatyana Franck


Review published in the newsletter #247 - from 23 February 2012 to 29 February 2012

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