Showing posts with label Paris photographer 1950s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris photographer 1950s. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

EXERTIER Risque TV Set Series Paris 1950s


Years ago one of my colleagues in Paris bought a very large collection (the archives?) of Jacques Exertier, a Parisian photographer who worked in the 1950s and '60s. He created an enormous amount of nudes and risque photographs as well as pin-ups and promotional photographs for strippers and cabaret performers. After trying to find what I liked in his work, I finally gave up and bought nothing. I revisited "the collection" many times and finally found something I liked: different models posed in a series of strip tease photos in front of a television set. Here is a selection.















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