Raymond Cauchetier

Following the gallery’s first exhibition tribute of the work of Raymond Cauchetier in 2015, this is a second exhibition, celebrating 100 years of this unique photographer.

After reporting on the Indochina War in the 1950s, Raymond Cauchetier returned to France and began a career as a still photographer in the summer of 1959 alongside Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the cult film, Breathless – the emblematic film of the French New Wave.

Cauchetier was thus witness to many essential films of this movement, such as Jules et Jim, Lola, Une femme est une femme, La Peau Douce … He worked alongside the young directors and actors who revolutionised auteur cinema: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Jeanne Moreau, Anna Karina, and many more.