Entre Nous: Bohemian Chic in the 1960s and 1970s: A Photo Memoir by Mary Russell

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Glamorous fashion editor Mary Russell's personal photographs capture the effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s from within the international fashion and art scenes. As Paris fashion correspondent for prestigious publications such as Glamour, Vogue, Women's Wear Daily, and the New York Times, and as photo stylist for Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Lord Snowdon, Francesco Scavullo, and Henry Clarke, the American journalist and photographer Mary Russell not only captured the mood of the international clique of elite bohemians who ruled the Parisian art and fashion world in the 1960s and 1970s, but quickly became a central part of it. The passionate young American in Paris participated in fashion history as it happened and plunged head first into the international Jet Set. Russell developed intimate friendships with her entourage, traveling from fashion events in Paris and London to glamorous holidays in Saint Moritz, Saint-Tropez, and the Venetian Lido with the people who invented cool modernity, and, most importantly, capturing them on her Nikon as a friend would have, mining the mood of the period and exploding the boundaries between reportage and fashion. Published here for the first time, the charmed lives of the Beautiful People of the 1960s and 1970s are brought to life in this collection of intimate portraits of the creative high society and the cultural underground: Andy Warhol's visit to Paris with the Factory, the circle of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge-Loulou de la Falaise, Betty and Francois Catroux, Karl Lagerfeld-Francoise Sagan, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Adjani, Jane Birkin, Peter Beard, Gunter Sachs and various playboys, and many others. The photographs are accompanied by Russell's personal memoirs.

Mary Russell's career in fashion journalism was launched by Diana Vreeland when the legendary editor recommended her for a job at Glamour in New York, which eventually led her to open the magazine's Parisian office. At turns a journalist and stylist for photographers in Paris, London, and New York, Russell worked closely with celebrities from film, fashion, music, and dance. Her personal photographs, taken during private moments at work and at play, offer a rare and privileged insight into the artistic and cultural elite of the 1960s and 1970s. Pierre Passebon is a specialist of twentieth-century decorative arts. He owns the world-class Galerie du Passage in Paris.

"[This] stunning tome ... features a collection of American journalist and photographer Mary Russell's photographs mixed beautifully together with her personal memoirs.... It paints an intriguing picture of an iconic era." -Image, January 2020 "If there was something fabulous happening with the beau monde during the decadent tumult of the 1960s and '70s, chances are that Mary Russell saw it firsthand.... Russell, currently in her 70s, unveils her glamorous past in a new book, Entre Nous: Bohemian Chic in the 1960s and 1970s (Flammarion), a collection of intimate portraits of her illustrious circle." -Departures, February 29, 2020 "Bohemian Rhapsody: Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool." -Airmail, February 29, 2020 "The veteran fashion editor is a photographer to the core, today using a sleek iPhone instead of the bulky Nikon automatic of yore. "I want to record everything I like. It's never been about making money or selling pictures," she says. "It's sharing an intimate moment for the time I'm there, and capturing the essence of our human connection." In fact, roughly 80 percent of the images in her new book, "Entre Nous: Bohemian Chic in the 1960s and 1970s," have never been published - and most never shown to the famous subjects she captured, from Jerry Hall and Charlotte Rampling to Gunter Sachs and Keith Richards." -WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY