JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT – TWENTY FIVE ICONS OF AMERICA
2020-11-23In 2020, French-American photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont received The Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism and The Visa D’Or Award of the Figaro Magazine for Lifetime Achievement.
For more than three decades, starting in 1964, Jean-Pierre Laffont travelled all fifty states seeking to document as wide of a range of compelling American stories, and he also photographed celebrities both French and American along with all the politicians of the times. He spent eight years at the White House as a foreign correspondent and photographed several presidents. He produced in-depth photo essays of the rise of the World Trade Center, the gangs in the Bronx, and the violence on 42nd Street.
Opposite – Robert Kennedy campaigning, Brooklyn, NY, December 1st, 1967
Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
100 Crosby St, #603
New York
NY 10012
