Riviera Cocktail

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An illustrated story on the golden age of the French Riviera in the 1950s — rock-and-roll and bikinis, existentialism and the knockout BB… Edward Quinn tells the story of a playground frequented by the jet set and legendary actors and actresses — at a time when the French Riviera was the place of daily celebrations. A fascinating chronicle that relates a little-known part of the story of a very glamour lifestyle!

Author : Edward Quinn

Publishing House : teNeues

Publication Date : 2011

No photographer has delivered such exhaustive, lucid and so subtly ironic testimony to the social and cultural life of the “Golden Fifties” on the Côte d’Azur as the Irishman Edward Quinn (1920-1997). Movie stars and artists, jazz musicians and songwriters, aristocrats, shipowners, directors, politicians, pin-ups and men of letters: these were the characters who vied for the spotlight on the French Riviera in Quinn’s time. The photographer evolves with malice and charm in this universe of glitter, and casts a unique glance at him. Quinn never exhibits or compromises, but always lets the viewer glimpse the intimate: a Brigitte Bardot as young as unknown, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas leaving a night club, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier at their first meeting, Audrey Hepburn at the start of her career, Sophia Loren in her suite at the Carlton. Pablo Picasso did not let any other photographer come so close to his private world. A long friendship bound him to Edward Quinn until the end of his life. Rejoice: a very special photographic cocktail awaits you.