MES ANNÉES 60 - Tome 2. Préface de Patrick Modiano. PERIER (Jean-Marie).

PARIS, Filipacchi - October 1999 - C.34x27x2- Cardboard red editor in Bradel titled in black and white and illustrated with a small photo portrait; red jacket identical to the cover; important photographic iconography mainly in color. Very good state. "When he started photographing his models, Jean-Marie was not much older than they were: just twenty-three years old, a few months before he was still unaware of the existence of Johnny Hallyday. Because of the war and his military service, the first time he heard Johnny sing, it was a Christmas night on Radio Oran and the chorus of the song "Retiens la nuit" sounded funny. in a city where bombs were bombarding each street corner, maybe that Christmas began in the sixties. some to call "Uncle Dan", a very young man was commissioned to photograph other young people for a magazine that had just been born (.) I find in these photos, after thirty years, not the past, but the present, this carelessness that makes you ignore yesterday and tomorrow and live simply "the sink age, life and beauty today. "It is the privilege of the youth, for whom time does not exist. Nor space: where exactly are Johnny, Long, Dick or Eddy? They are in their dreams of an imaginary America, no doubt even truer than the real one, since dreams are contagious and we end up imposing them on others, especially when they have the strength of dreams of childhood or of adolescence. There were those magical moments of our fifteen years when the slopes of Montmartre and Belleville debouched on the plateau and the valleys of Arizona and Colorado. It was enough to enter a neighborhood cinema, Florida or Marcadet Palace, to see "The Girl of the Prairie" or "The Adventurer of the Rio Grande." There were those afternoons and evenings of the same era, where Elvis Presley was heard for the first time in the jukeboxes of Porte Clignancourt. Then, the slightly less gray sky of Saint-Ouen became the sky so blue and so deep in Texas. With a simple click, by a simple intuition, Jean-Marie Périer fixed the dream forever. He had his eye. "Patrick Modiano.

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