Who is Jacques Straesslé ?
Jacques Straesslé was twenty when Russian tanks swept through
the Spring of Prague. The young Parisian recognized in the event the
opportunity to capture oppression through his lens. The experience was
to leave him exhausted and deeply disappointed. He was not cut out for
daily horror. Jacques chose the creative way.
He founded his own advertising agency and decided to exercise the profession
of independent photographer at the same time. |
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In 1976 he lay the cornerstone for his grand idea: snap the most prestigious jazzmen of the Montreux Jazz Festival, whom he would immortalise backstage. Straesslé began to fix his subjects on film. The systematic principle of his series fascinated him. When they pass before our eyes, his snapshots let an immediate, instantaneous truth show through; a way of revealing his thrilling encounters in good taste that is never cruel. |
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