Sylvia Krystel in Emmanuelle, photo cover May 1974
Estimate € 8,000 – 12,000 / $ 8,800 – 13,200
© Francis Giacobetti
Article by Roxana Florina Popa
ARTCURIAL auctions photography of master signature : FRANCIS GIACOBETTI.
One of France’s most innovative photographers, Francis Giacobetti is renowned as the man behind the Emmanuelle movie poster, the creator of the Lui Magazine together with Daniel Filipacchi, collaborator for Paris Match and the American magazine Life and official photographer for the Japanese fashion designer, Issey Miyake for over 20 years. Francis Giacobetti stands next to Richard Avedon and Peter Lindbergh among the rare photographers to shoot the Pirelli calendar.
Exhibition: 14 to 16 October 2017
Sales: 17 October 2017
Location: ARTCURIAL in Paris, 7, Rond Point des Champs-Elysées
Estimate € 4,000 – 6,000 / $ 4,400 – 6,600
Triptych : Estimate € 8,000 – 12,000 / $ 8,800 – 13,200
The 33 prints revealed for sale in Paris depict Francis Giacobetti’s photography as a vehicle for fantastic life encounters. Bidders can imagine themselves in the photographer’s airplane jetting off around the world to shoot beautiful Jane Fonda, Rachel Welch and Jane Birkin for magazine covers, as well as 170 talented men and women from the 20ths and 21st century.
Estimate € 4,000 – 6,000 / $ 4,400 – 6,600
As the issues of the Lui Magazine hit newsstands, Giacobetti gradually becomes the Pope of the Glamour Shot. Jean-Paul Goude, advertising film director, illustrates in words the Giacobetti woman:
“She is tanned, covered in sand, on a beach, photographed with men in mind, like a golden goddess. She could be a Duchesse or a baker’s girl. We don’t know. A woman is a woman. Her femininity is highlighted; her beauty is taken out of all other context“.
The photographer confesses: “Nude is undoubtedly the hardest art form. I did not choose it, it was instinctive.”
Defining himself as “a thief and a liar” who steals faces, transforming them to the extent that “a mother seldom recognises her own child“, Giacobetti arrives in his latest works at photographing his models’ pupil as the unique window into the soul.
Using an ophthalmological camera of his own craft, he creates the pupil diptychs with Francis Bacon, Dalai Lama, César, Fidel Castro and Luciano Pavarotti.
Estimate € 4,000 – 6,000 / $ 4,400 – 6,600
Editions Assouline and Editions First join Artcurial in celebrating the photographic giant with art books gathering his most beautiful photos. In his memoirs, Francis Giacobetti looks back to his incredible life: how a young man became an internationally famous photographer, how he created the Lui Magazine, the work behind the fashion scenes in New York, Paris and Los Angeles, his unwavering friendship with Issey Miyake, the unforgettable moments spent with Salvador Dalì, the sculptor César Bacon and the painter Francis Bacon, his love story with Carole Bouquet and his family relationships.
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Roxana Florina Popa is the author and self-publisher of the book “Beauty Elegance Creativity – 12 Interviews on the Act of Creation“
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