Vintage French PHOTO magazine

[iluvjeisa]

French PHOTO is such a classic magazine but we don't have a lot of scans.

To start this thread, a couple of scans from the July issue of 1986, scanned by me. Cover features Paulina Porizkowa by Patrick Demarchelier.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Gauloises ad and two shots by Curto inside. Welcome, my dears, to that pinnacle of what was the 80s - the chunky chain string bikini.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Photo from February 1980, cover by Christian Coigny, scanned by me.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Two first from a Bourdin ed from the same issue. scanned by me.

 

[lady stardust]

omg those bourdin shots..what can you say?
it's scary..still beautiful and kind of...cute B)
anyway i looove it!
sUperb scans ilj

 

[iluvjeisa]

More Bourdin...

 

[rh85]

OMG I love the 80's!

why we don't have that kind of photographers these days? before everyone had its personality but now everything looks the same.

thanks I luvjeisa

 

[iluvjeisa]

^Many theories about that....but apparently something changed in the business circle of photographers and magazines that has resulted in a decline in quality. But it goes deeper than that.....

Last from this issue...

 

[hfgl]

The chain string bikiniI would've paid to see someone walk around like that on a public beach,freaking out the tourists

 

[iluvjeisa]

^I bet that's an idea for an entrepreneur one day...some sort of circus thing, wait that's Miami Beach - nothing new under the sun, lol

 

[hfgl]

 

[moussemaker]

PHOTO has a cover archive on their website, source photo.fr/kiosque

 

[moussemaker]

^
same source

 

[hfgl]

Well alright!now all magazines must do the same.Now.

 

[hfgl]

December 1996
Irina,Kristina and Tatianaby Avedon

July/August1996
Piera by Thomas Susemilh

Brooke Shields by Lachapelle
May 1995 (Aww,the memories of when i bought that issue)

Estelle Lefebure by ?
April 1993

? by Irving Penn
November 1988 (ugh,want this!)

photo.fr

 

[hfgl]

from same source

July 1982
? by ?

June 1982
? by Marc Rabin

March 1982
? by Eric Meola

January 1982
? by ?

November 1981
Myriam by Jean Francois Jonvelle

 

[hfgl]

same source^^
June 1981
? by Marc Robin

Janvier 1981
? by Cheyco Leidmann

November 1980
? by Helmut Newton (possibly my favorite picture ever)

 

[moussemaker]

^
I thought the last one was a painting before enlarging it. Which doesn't make sense, because it's Photo magazine.

 

[romeoelliott]

wow, nice covers. is the mag still around now?

 

[iluvjeisa]

It sure is...