Bruno de Monès was born in 1952 and grows up in Marocco. Back in France after his baccalauréat, he dedicated himself to photography, first as a fashion photographers' assistant then as a contributor to various fashion houses. In 1976, he started working on a series of portraits of personalities of the world of cinema, entertainment, fashion and the arts. During his long collaboration with the "Magazine Littéraire", which started in 1983, he produced a series of portraits of the most famous French intellectuals and writers of the last decades of the 20th century. After a return to fashion photography in Japan in the late 1980's, he is now a film director. Roger-Viollet is the exclusive worldwide distributor of his portraits, published as a monograph in 1983.
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Edouard Limonov (1943-2020), Russian-born French political writer and dissident, at his place. Paris, 1980's.
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Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009), French anthropologist, ethnologist and philosopher, at home. Paris, September 1985.
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Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009), French anthropologist, ethnologist and philosopher, at home. Paris, September 1985.
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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, at his place. Paris, July 1988.
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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, at home. Paris, July 1988.
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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, at home. Paris, July 1988.
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Paul Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, at home. Paris, April 1984.
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Paul Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, at home. Paris, April 1984.
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Raymond Aron (1905-1983), French writer, philosopher and journalist. Paris, July 1983.
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Edgar Morin (Edgar Nahoum, born in 1921), French sociologist and philosopher, at home. Paris, June 1993.
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Otar Iosseliani (born in 1934), Georgian director, at home. Paris, January 1990.
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Jacques Doillon (born in 1944), French film editor, director, actor and scriptwriter. Paris, September 1990.
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Alice Sapritch (Alice Sapric, 1916-1990), Armenian-born French actress. Paris, 1977.
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Simone Signoret (1921-1985) French actress, with Yves Montand (1921-1991), French actor, singer and variety artist, at home. Paris, 1984.
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Anny Duperey (born in 1947), French actress and novelist, at home. Paris, 1977.
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Pierre Aleyrangues (known as Piéral, 1923-2003), French actor. Paris, 1977. Photograph by Bruno de Monès (born in 1952).
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Marie Laforêt (1939-2019), French actress and singer. Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), 1976.
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Michel Bouquet (1925-2022), French actor, in his dressing-room to the theatre de l'Atelier. Paris, 1986.
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Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), German actor. Paris, 1977.
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Arletty (Léonie Bathiat, 1898-1992), French actress. Paris, 1983.
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Charlotte Rampling (born in 1946), British actress, at her place. Chatou (France), 1983.
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Ariane Mnouchkine (born in 1939), French theater director and manager of the troop she founded in 1964, the Théâtre du Soleil. Vincennes (France), March 1986.
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Sacha Pitoëff (1920-1990), French director and actor. Paris, 1976.
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Jean Michel Jarre (born in 1948), French composer of electronic music, in his studio. Chatou, 1983.
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Charles Aznavour (1924-2018), Armenian-born French singer-songwriter and actor, in his dressing room at the Olympia. Paris, 1983.
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Françoise Hardy (born in 1944), French singer-songwriter. Paris, 1978.
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Serge Reggiani (1922-2004), Italian-born French actor and singer. Paris, 1977.
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Claude Nougaro (1929-2004), French singer. Paris, 1981.
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Inès de la Fressange (born in 1957), French model, designer of fashion and perfumes, businesswoman and fashion journalist. Paris (VIIth arrondissement), 1983.
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Loris Azzaro (1933-2003), Italian fashion designer and perfumer, at his place. Paris, 1975.
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Paco Rabanne (born in 1934), Spanish fashion designer and writer, in his couture house. Paris, 1987.
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Edward Wadie Saïd (1935-2003), Palestinian-born American literary theorist, critic and intellectual. Paris, décembre 1996.
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Fernand Braudel (1902-1985), French historian. Paris, October 1984.
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Arlette Farge, French historian. Paris, around 1980.
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André Miquel (born in 1929), French historian, specialist in Arabic language and literature. Paris, February 1988.
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Marcel Gauchet (born in 1946), French historian and philosopher, November 1985.
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Jean Delumeau (1923-2020), French historian, specialist of Christianity.
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Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1926-2014), French publisher. Paris, November-December 1990.
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Pierre Seghers (1906-1987), French publisher and poet. Paris, December 1983.
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André Dhôtel (1900-1991), French writer. Paris, 1983.
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V. S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1932-2018), British writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Paris, May 1984.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun (born in 1944), Franco-Moroccan writer and poet, around 1980.
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Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992), Japanese writer of detective novels. Paris, December 1988.
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Francis Ponge (1899-1988), French writer and poet. Paris, 1983.
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Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995), French writer, novelist, literature and cinema critic, scriptwriter, dialogue writer and translator. Paris, March 1983.
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Léo Malet (1909-1996), French writer, at his place. Châtillon (Hauts-de-Seine), March 1983.
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Roland Topor (1938-1997), French illustrator, artist and writer, at home. Paris, 1978.
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Jacques Tardi (born in 1946), French comic strip artist. Paris, 1983.
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Martin Amis (born in 1949), British writer, July 1987.
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Nina Berberova (1901-1993), Russian writer. Paris, April 1985.
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