Dernière révision le 2014/05/29 a 10:36
Pendant 30 ans, l’homme a été à la tête d’un groupe de photographes collectionneurs de scoops. Ils fabriquaient les « covers » des plus grands magazines du monde. Et puis, le gestionnaire méticuleux des intérêts de Sygma a été emporté, non par une révolution qu’il avait anticipée, mais par la faiblesse de sa force.
Dernière révision le 2024/03/26 a 4:51
He arrives at the appointment on a motorcycle wearing a reporter’s jacket. With a steady gaze and steady feet, Alain Noguès was one of the first partners of the Sygma agency.
Dernière révision le 2024/03/03 a 6:14
For forty years, Alain Dupuis sold photos, first for APIS, then for the Sygma agency, where he was joined by Claude Duverger, Tony Rubichon and others. The founding of Sygma was the starting gun for the fierce competition among Gamma, Sygma and Sipa Press, founded the same year as Sygma by Göksin Sipahioglu. The agencies managed in just a few years to drive up the price of news photos to outrageous sums.
Between 1985 and 1995, they created what has been called The Golden Age of Photojournalism, where photographers and sellers got “filthy rich” through real and false scoops and taking foolish risks. According to several witnesses, “the parking lots at Sygma were the first in France to have Porsches, Jaguars and Ferraris.”
This success made their downfall all the more bitter.
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Dernière révision le 2023/12/28 a 11:20
He is the best known of the four musketeers who founded Gamma in November 1966, taking charge of the agency after the parting of the ways. I wanted to hear his side of the story, but the photographer, who took President François Holland’s official portrait one year ago, is difficult to reach. When I finally got through to him, he was reluctant at first: “The anniversary of Sygma. I’m in no position to talk about it—I’m anti-Sygma!” A few days later, he called me back and kindly answered a few questions. Forty years later, despite his written contribution to the memoirs of Hubert Henrotte (which Depardon claims not to have read), we feel that the conflict of April and May 1973 is still vivid in his mind. The reason is his almost visceral attachment to Gamma, which led him again last month to offer his support to François Lochon, the agency’s current director.
Michel Puech
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Dernière révision le 2013/10/06 a 5:40
Il est le plus connu des quatre mousquetaires qui ont fondé Gamma en novembre 1966 et c’est lui qui a pris la direction de l’agence après la scission des fondateurs. Je souhaitais évidement son témoignage, mais le photographe qui a immortalisé le Président de la République française il y a un an, est difficile à joindre. Voir la suite
Dernière révision le 2024/03/12 a 12:11
Issy-les-Moulineaux le mercredi 24 avril 2013 vers midi. Henri Bureau a tourné en voiture un moment. Dans le téléphone mobile, il râle : « Je n’ai pas que ça à faire… » Finalement il gare sa C4 à un coin de rue et je le rejoins.
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