Leave an impressive portfolio behind him. This Saturday, June 8, Francis Giacobetti, a French photographer and director, died at the age of 85 years of a respiratory trial, at the Franco-British hospital in Levallois announces his former newspaper Paris party.
During their long career, he photographed many celebrities, including the couple formed by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Grace Jones or even painter Francis Bacon. In the 80s, it even produced a series of “great portraits”, including those of the president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, of the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking or the Italian director Federico Fellini.
Pirelli calendars and the magazine “Playboy”
He entered the profession in the 1950s as assistant to Maurice Tabard, head of the photo service of Marie ClaireMarseille joins Paris party With only 20 years to be “color consultant”. Under the leadership of Daniel Filipacchi, goes to inform and then a photographer and becomes inseparable from The Weekly.
In parallel, in the 1970s, he became an artistic director of the magazine Him and develop the prestigious calendars Pirelli of 1970 and 1971. He also worked in the French edition of Playboy For twenty years. Finally, he is the director of the feature film Emmanuelle l’Antivierge (1975) with Sylvia Kristtel, second part of the series of erotic films and success in the room with more than 2 million admissions.
Father of three daughters Olivia, Sandrine and Florence with his wife Jeanne, he is also the father of Louis Giacobetti, deputy director in the film set The three musketeers By Martin Bourboulon, whom he had with Carole Bouquet.
Source: BFM TV
