André Villers discovers photography at 21 at the sanatorium in Vallauris in the south of France where he had been hospitalised for several years, suffering from bone tuberculosis.
Two years later, in 1953, André meets Pablo Picasso who will buy the young photographer his first Rolleiflex camera. The two will later work together on a poetic cut-out album called ‘Diurnes’.
Through Picasso, André has met and photographed some of the greatest artists of the 20th century such as Chagall, Dalí, Miró, Buñuel, Fellini, Brassaï, Cocteau, Prévert, Gainsbourg, Le Corbusier, Léger and many others. However, André has never boasted about it. Throughout his life, he kept a low profile, even though his photographs are known worldwide.
One of the last true great photographers and visual artists waiting to be fully discovered.
Filmmaker will be in attendance for Q&A at screening.
