This week, as Laffont heads to the 2015 FOTOfusion festival to present his work, zPhotoJournal has a conversation with the passionate and eloquent Jean-Pierre Laffont as he discusses his “Magical Mystery Tour.”
Tag: Jean-Pierre Laffont
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Looking Back on the Grit and Glamour of New York – The New York Times
Looking Back on the Grit and Glamour of New York
New York welcomed the French photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont, and he spent the latter half of the 20th century capturing the spirit of his adopted city.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/lens/looking-back-on-the-grit-and-glamour-of-new-york.html
New York welcomed the French photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont, and he spent the latter half of the 20th century capturing the spirit of his adopted city.
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Jean-Pierre Laffont, New York Up and Down – The Eye of Photography
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Pingyao, Jean-Pierre Laffont’s triumph – The Eye of Photography
Pingyao, Jean-Pierre Laffont’s triumph
the presence of Jean-Pierre Laffont’s ground-breaking exhibition is a breath of healthy air in the midst of the mountains of right-thinking Chinese photographers whose titles hang on too often to the “China Dream” of official propaganda
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Jean-Pierre Laffont: Photographer’s Paradise: Turbulent America 1960-1990 (PHOTOS).
How a French Photographer Captured a Seminal Period in American History
Jean-Pierre Laffont’s extensive photo archive seems almost mythological: How could one photographer cover so many seminal events with such a unique…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/12/19/jean_pierre_laffont_photographer_s_paradise_turbulent_america_1960_1990.html
Jean-Pierre Laffont’s extensive photo archive seems almost mythological: How could one photographer cover so many seminal events with such a unique vision?
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Jean-Pierre Laffont 30 years of American History – The Eye of Photography
Jean-Pierre Laffont 30 years of American History
Jean-Pierre and Eliane Laffont arrived in America in the mid-1960s. In 1969, they opened the Gamma news agency bureau, then the Sygma news agency bureau in 1973 following the split. They’ve just published Photographer’s Paradise: Turbulent America 1960-1990 (Glitterati). The book, one of the most important of the season, will be “screened” at Visa pour l’Image
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A Photographer’s Paradise in America
A Photographer’s Paradise in America
Soon after arriving in New York in the mid-1960s, Jean-Pierre Laffont discovered that — unlike anywhere else — his new neighbors respected him and his profession.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/a-photographers-paradise-in-america/
Jean-Pierre Laffont’s America is a land of poverty, corporate greed, racism and violence. But it is also a land of optimism where hard work, sheer will and following your dream can lead to almost anything. It is so vast that it can contain both the quiet desperation of fifth-generation farmers struggling to remain on their family land and the hopes of a new immigrant searching for a better life.