Vintage photo of Yves Montand with his wife Carole Amiel

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The images in this archive where distributed in only 10-15 copies around the world at the time and many copies have been lost or damaged during time, each copy from the collection is therefore very rare and unique. It is a journalistic proposal based on the philosophy of "slow journalism" and is a counter-proposal to the journalism of the dominant press that is overwhelmed by mass reproduction of news on a 24-hour basis in the Mass Media (churnalism) which inevitably leads to uniformity of content.

He was very proud to bring money home σε he kept only a small amount so that he could go to the neighborhood cinema, where he watched mainly American movies of the time, and he began to dream of becoming an actor, singer, dancer… . He always had a lot of cash in his pocket, so he was otherwise unable to get his credit card money from a machine. All our press photos are LIMITED ARCHIVE ORIGINALS - they are the actual prints that were used by the newspapers, they are not reprints or digital prints produced by us.

It was a big shock for him and very difficult because he had many concerts in the Eastern Bloc countries and in the Soviet Union at that time, and he understood that the Soviet regime was using him to do his propaganda. When Simon and I bought their holiday home in Normandy, they went with all these friends to make sure they liked it κάθε Each friend had his own room, all the froth of French culture was gathered there; they were constantly surrounded by friends… wonderful moments! In this film Yves Montand showed that he is a great actor under the direction of Gavra… With Claude Sautet he made great films as well. In accordance with the legal provisions, you can ask for the removal of your name and the name of your minor children.

In France he admired Trenet, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Mondy's friends, Pierre Brasseur… they were all a group. Our son came into our lives as an unexpected gift, because we had not planned it, it was an accident, a wonderful accident! There was sympathy, admiration and mutual respect… Marilyn was looking for a partner for the film she was making - many well-known American stars had turned down her offers, they did not want to "serve Monroe's soup"…. If you have a Capricorn Ascendant, your Cancer Descendant will awaken your gentleness, sensitivity and need to look after and protect. There was no money and the deal was this: If it goes well I will have some percentage on the rights, if it goes badly I will have nothing κε He found it very reasonable.They met in Saint Paul de Vence where Montan had gone to see his friend Jacques Prevert, they had mutual friends, so they met and fell in love… Simone was married then and divorced to live with Montan. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format. So alone in the hotel, waiting for the shooting to resume, he had created some intimacy between them… they had similar social backgrounds, difficult childhood years… at some point… What man could resist Monroe?

IMS was a editorial photo archive in Scandinavia founded in 1948 but evolved from older archives that have images in the collection also. But he never went ahead, he never took it really seriously, he knew how difficult it was to get into the election campaign! And he did not make the opening, he did not make an ecumenical government with ministers from all political parties… Wrong. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. There he began to openly, with all his might, condemn Stalinism and all the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and its other satellite countries.He always said: "The best way to not be considered out of fashion at some point is to never follow it…! So all the residents took a good look at this situation… they said that it is not annoying at all since Montan achieved everything in his life and career, whatever he did, whatever he did he did very well. Carole and I are friends and she gladly accepted the proposal to discuss all the material on the occasion of the publication of the book, with personal stories and anecdotal incidents of Yves Montand and their life together.