Pendant 40 ans, à pied, en mobylette puis en Vespa, Alain Dupuis fut à Paris le roi des vendeurs de photos de presse. L’homme, qui de 1973 à 2000, a fait la bonne fortune des photographes et celle de l’agence Sygma. Un mythe, le témoin de ce fameux « âge d’or » du photojournalisme.
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736 rolls of film by Gilles Caron rediscovered
Tuesday, May 25, 2010, the Commercial Court of Paris pronounced the liquidation of the Corbis Sygma corporation. Counselor Gorrias had been appointed liquidator and had taken over the wreckage of the press agency created by Hubert Henrotte in 1973 and then bought by Bill Gates in 1999. Nine month later, millions of photographs were in jeopardy of destruction…Until all of a sudden 736 rolls of film from the mythical photographer from Gamma Agency reappear in the courts!