Gilles Caron, pour la liberté de la Presse

Title: Gilles Caron, pour la liberté de la Presse

Photographer(s): Gilles Caron

Writer(s): Patrick Poivre D'Arvor, Robert Pledge, Marianne Montely.Caron, Jean-Francois Julliard, Leonard Vincent, Benoit Hervieu, Vincent Brossel, Bureau Europe,Lynn Tehini,Julien Pain, Robert Ménard, Robert Pledge

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Publisher(s): Reporters sans Frontières, Paris, France

Year: 2006

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Language(s): French

Pages: 152

Size: 21 x 28,5 cm

Binding: Softcover

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Print: Printed in France

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: World,1957-1970

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In the space of just a few years Gilles Caron, a passionate and audacious young journalist, made his mark in the world of photography breathing new life into a genre: photojournalism. He founded the photographic agency Gamma in 1968 with Raymond Depardon and rapidly made a name for himself by covering all of the period’s major conflicts: the Middle East, Vietnam, Chad, Northern Ireland, Biafra… Wherever there was fighting, he was there with his camera until one day in April 1970, 5 April to be precise, when he disappeared in Cambodia in a zone controlled by the Khmer Rouge.

Although he was primarily known as a war reporter, Caron’s photography is also remarkable for the way he managed to capture the quintessential spirit of the 1960s: cinema and France’s Nouvelle Vague, fashion, music, the rebellious younger generation and politics are amongst his main subjects, those that inspired some of his most striking images. The cover photo of this book shows Daniel Cohn-Bendit confronting a CRS riot police officer, and his extremely realistic account of the events of May 1968 will forever remain indelibly etched in our collective memory. In just a few short years, Caron managed to prove that he was one of photojournalism’s greats.