Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave
By: Raymond Cauchetier, foreward by Philippe Garner, edited by James Hyman
Publisher: ACC Art Books Ltd.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Suffolk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781851497911
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Cinematography; History; Pictorial works; New wave films; Motion pictures; Production and direction
Other titles: New wave
Description: "In the late 1950s and early 1960s French New Wave cinema exploded onto international screens with films like Les quatre cents coups, A bout de souffle and Jules et Jim. They were radical, artistic, original and most importantly set up the director as a creative genius; at the forefront were Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Today these films are credited with changing cinema forever. For many film goers they command strong and passionate respect and became the foundations on which a lifetime of cinema-going is built. In the photographs of Raymond Cauchetier we bear witness to the great artistic genius that was central to the process of making these films. Cauchetier's photographs are a culturally important documentary of the director at work, his methods and processes. His photographs capture some of the most memorable moments in film; Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg on the Champs Élysées in A bout de souffle, Jeanne Moreau in the race scene of Jules et Jim, Anna Karina in a Parisian Cafe in Une femme est une femme. But Cauchetier's genius lies also in the fact that his photographs are far above just a visual record of these films. They clearly show the same spirit, the same freedom and the same originality that made The New Wave so important. Cauchetier's photographs are as much a part of The New Wave as the films themselves. In the words of Richard Brody: In these images, Raymond Cauchetier, a witness to art, made art by bearing true witness."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "This is the first book published in English featuring the New Wave film photographs of Raymond Cauchetier."--publisher's website.

Includes filmography (page 222).
Table of contents: title: Raymond Chauchetier: Photo-witness of the Nouvelle Vague / by Philippe Garner; title: The New Wave / by Raymond Chauchetier; title: The screenplay; title: Camera!; title: Off camera; title: The director; title: Portfolio; title: Close-up; title: Raymond Chauchetier in his own words; title: Filmography; title: Pictorial index.