BENNO GRAZIANI : MEMORIES OF SUMMER

17 Sep-9 Oct 2009

Overview

Graziani, a world-renowned photographic journalist, was one of the original staff at Paris Match along with Willy Rizzo and Daniel Filipacchi under the directorship of Jean Prouvost and Hervé Mille. Prouvost, who led Paris Match to attain such high prestige and financial success, encouraged the young photographers to ‘spend what you want’ and ‘live like kings’ on the condition they produced quality images. ‘Match was our little club, there were no editors meetings because we hardly spent time apart from each other – and it worked! Some editions sold more than two million copies…very quickly we were the best. The worlds press envied us and tried in vain to imitate us.’ Graziani.