À coeur joie
Keystone Agency
About this photograph :
À coeur joie
BB was a free woman and actress during a period which was still prudish. Arletty humorously said with regard to Bardot: ‘Before her, stars descended stairs with a flourish. She went up them nude. The public benefitted from it.’ In ‘Two Weeks in September,’ the actress played a cover girl torn between her husband and a new love. Some of it was filmed in London where the character went to be photographed for publicity. For the film, Bardot posed on the deck of a boat floating on the Thames. In 1956, her own husband, Roger Vadim, predicted that she would be ‘every married man’s inaccessible fantasy.’ Eleven years afterwards, Brigitte Bardot again embodied, in the cinema and in real life, and for many years to come, a sensual woman who broke rules to pursue her passions.
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Keystone Agency
Created in 1927, Keystone was the first big photo
press agency to have international offices (London, Berlin, New York, etc…).
Since its creation, it has produced a number of stories covering the four
corners of the world and all types of subjects (arts, sciences, everyday life, industry,
great political, sporting and cultural events). Numerous collections were
also acquired allowing a collection to be built up of more than 15 million
photographs which show history, personalities and arts over a period from
antiquity to this day and age (1985). From the Russian Revolution to the advent
of the Third Reich, from the First World War to the Camp David Accords, the
essence of the 20th century is illustrated in the Keystone
collection.
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