{"id":10870,"date":"2020-05-23T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:47:43","slug":"reporters-associes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10870","title":{"rendered":"Reporters Associ\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Eye of Photography<\/a> has just published a series of articles by Louis Le Roux (in English translation) about the Paris photo agency Reporters Associ\u00e9s<\/em>, founded in 1953. Le Roux joined them as a lab worker a few months later and eventually became the head of the agency, one of first generation which pioneered\u00a0the \u201cFrench photojournalism\u201d of the second part of the 20th century, serving the rise of magazines such as Paris Match, Stern, Jours de France…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In part one of the five part series<\/a> he brings to life some of the problems of working at the time, starting with a primitive darkroom around the same size as my own boxroom darkroom at home, and with the same lack of facilities, without running water or sink, though in a much grander house on Avenue Frochot. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second part<\/a> looks in detail at\u00a0Lova de Vaysse, real name was Vladimir-Lev Rychkoff-Taroussky (1921- 1983), the boss of the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 3, The Fifties of the Rolleiflex<\/a>, looks at the change from the press cameras using glass plates to film-based photography and some of the reportages carried out by the agency as well as giving some details about materials and storage of negatives and prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth part of the series<\/a> looks at the Agency’s peak in the 1960s when it covered all major events and a rapid change to 35mm took place, at first with Leicas and then Pentax, Canon and Nikon SLRs. While the square format of the Rollei meant that virtually all images were cropped in the darkroom, Le Roux comments “There will be less and less need to crop photos. The framing will be done directly by the photographers thanks to the change of lens. Besides, photographers don\u2019t really like having their shots cropped.” And finally the agency got a proper modern darkroom and had to begin to cope with the move to colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final part <\/a>Le Roux talks about some of the photographers who worked with the agency in the 1960s, and about the loss of their contract with Stern. Many of the best photographers were leaving to join newer agencies such as Gamma, and Le Roux, seeing the agency had no future he resigned. Two months later it was bankrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a well illustrated insider’s story into a period of great change in photojournalism, and well worth reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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