Michel Puech

A propos de Michel Puech

Journaliste honoraire (Carte de presse n°29 349), directeur de la publication

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Gamma/Sygma: Hubert Henrotte, No More Scoops

Article de Michel Puech publié le 14 mai 2013
For 30 years, he was at the head of a group of photographers hunting for scoops. They made the covers of the world’s biggest magazines. Then the meticulous manager of Sygma’s interests was carried away, not by the revolution he had anticipated, but by his weakness. Voir la suite →

Dernière révision le 2014/05/29 a 10:36

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Sygma: Des scoops au naufrage, Hubert Henrotte

Article de Michel Puech publié le 14 mai 2013
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Hubert Henrotte. Au premier plan son livre avec une photo de Raymond Depardon. Copyright Michel Baret pour A l’oeil

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.

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Dernière révision le 2024/03/26 a 4:51

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Alain Noguès
Sygma ? « On a tout donné »

Article de Michel Puech publié le 14 mai 2013

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.

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Dernière révision le 2024/03/03 a 6:14

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Gamma/Sygma – Alain Dupuis: Dawn of the conquerors

Article de Michel Puech publié le 14 mai 2013

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.

 

Michel PuechDernière révision le 2014/05/29 a 10:41

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