“That day to avoid the crowds, Godard shot from up high on the fifth floor of a building. You could just make out this minuscule couple parting with a chaste kiss in front of a newspaper stand. I went down afterwards and said I wanted to do a close up of a kiss because it summed up their characters so well. They obliged, the kiss lasted five seconds.”
~ Raymond Cauchetier
(1920-2021)
Raymond directed his own off-screen sequences and created unique imagery that often told the story of the film—sometimes even better than the main feature itself.
That was his talent and his gift to us—not as the creator of the Nouvelle Vague, but as its unique witness and chronicler.
Come get lost in the evocative imagery of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s at our new exhibition: Nouvelle Vague: French Photography from the 1950s and 1960s
