Issy-les-Moulineaux, Wednesday, April 24, 2013, around noon. Henri Bureau had been driving in circles. “I’ve got other things to do,” he groaned into his cell phone. Finally he parked his Citroën C4 on a corner and I met him. The weather is nice. We sit outside in a Paris suburb. Bureau isn’t smiling, but he’s ready to tell his version of the collapse of Gamma and the creation of Sygma. His tone is not cold. The emotions from that day are still there A photographer for Reporters Associés, then one of the founders of the famous Gamma agency, he asserted his role as a leader among the photographers and staff during the “revolution” that led to the founding of Sygma. He would become one of the agency’s stars before rising to editor-in-chief. But in the history books, he is the photographer who immortalized General Charles de Gaulle in May 1968 for Gamma, still under the direction of Hubert Henrotte.

Michel Puech

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