Jean-François Jonvelle (1943-2002) - Marie Gillain, actrice, ca. 1990
\Artist: Jean-François Jonvelle (1943-2002) \Signature: Artist's stamp
Jean-François Jonvelle photo. Original print, circa 1990. Original colour silver print. Photographer's dry stamp on the bottom of the photo. Number of the negative on the back. Total size 11. 6 x 17. 8 cm, image 10 x 14. 7 cm Very good condition. Jean-François Jonvelle was a French fashion photographer. No studies, just a certificate. He was inspired by the paintings of Balthus, Bacon, Schiele but his true culture came from the cinema, especially "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam that he admitted to watching eleven times. His favourite film: "Jules et Jim" by François Truffaut. The photographer Georges Glasberg introduced him to photography in 1959 by taking him on a tour of France’s cathedrals. At the age of 20, he became the assistant to American photographer, Richard Avedon. He then freelanced, always working around women. He used to say that his favourite topic was the women he loved. He is the author of the photos of the advertising campaign "Demain j'enlève le bas" that revolutionised billboard advertising in the 1980. In 1998, he published an album of photos which was a kind of encyclopedia of chests, titled ‘Balcons’. He died at the age of 58.
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\Artist: Jean-François Jonvelle (1943-2002) \Signature: Artist's stamp
Jean-François Jonvelle photo. Original print, circa 1990. Original colour silver print. Photographer's dry stamp on the bottom of the photo. Number of the negative on the back. Total size 11. 6 x 17. 8 cm, image 10 x 14. 7 cm Very good condition. Jean-François Jonvelle was a French fashion photographer. No studies, just a certificate. He was inspired by the paintings of Balthus, Bacon, Schiele but his true culture came from the cinema, especially "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam that he admitted to watching eleven times. His favourite film: "Jules et Jim" by François Truffaut. The photographer Georges Glasberg introduced him to photography in 1959 by taking him on a tour of France’s cathedrals. At the age of 20, he became the assistant to American photographer, Richard Avedon. He then freelanced, always working around women. He used to say that his favourite topic was the women he loved. He is the author of the photos of the advertising campaign "Demain j'enlève le bas" that revolutionised billboard advertising in the 1980. In 1998, he published an album of photos which was a kind of encyclopedia of chests, titled ‘Balcons’. He died at the age of 58.
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