Academy - Photos de Cinema

While serving in the French Air Force's press corps in Indochina in the early 1950s, Raymond Cauchetier began photographing his unit's activities, and thus began his amazing career as a photojournalist. A chance meeting in 1957 at Angkor Wat with director Marcel Camus led to Cauchetier's decade-long career detour as a set photographer.

The Academy's Photos de Cinema exhibition is the first outside of Europe to showcase Cauchetier's motion picture work. On view will be 125 newly made, black-and-white prints from Cauchetier's own 35mm negatives. The printing was personally overseen by Cauchetier, now in his 90s, at his preferred lab in Paris. Film titles represented in the exhibition include Adieu Philippine, Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses), Jules et Jim, Lola and La peau douce (The Soft Skin). Also on view will be candid shots of such stars as Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Jeanne Moreau and Anna Karina, as well as photos of directors and their crews.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Academy's Grand Lobby Gallery, Tuesdays through Sundays.  Admission is free.