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Christian Rose, during the Jazz à La Villette festival, in Paris, on August 31, 2019. CHRISTIAN DUCASSE / DALLE
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) on March 4, 1946, Christian Rose died on July 11, following cancer. From 1965, he defined himself as an independent reporter-photographer. Without ever compromising on his status as a journalist: “I didn’t want to have a boss. » With Horace, Philippe Gras, Jacques Bisceglia, Thierry Trombert, Le Querrec, Christian Ducasse, he is part, recalls the journalist and producer Patrice Blanc-Francard, of “the band of great contemporary rock-blues-jazz-funk photographers”…
Sixty years of day-to-day concerts and portraits: the galaxy of jazz, blues, rock, contemporary music, all (Jimi Hendrix, Pierre Boulez, Janis Joplin, Stockhausen, Rickie Lee Jones, Miles Davis, Donovan, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder), the unknown (Eugène Mona), newcomers, all perfectly classified in his portfolio which can be consulted on his official website (widely distributed by the Dalle agency (Bertrand Al ary).
He remains faithful to his Nikon F1, to the black and white he treated in his personal lab. Thanks to Jean-Louis Ginibre, historic editor of Jazz Magazine, Christian Rose publishes his first photo in Periscope (Martial Solal, 1965). His colossal curriculum is an amazing attendance record. Daily presence, indifferent to style or notoriety (often to come). Presence anxious to avoid the triple fatal pitfall: aesthetics, staging and fantasy (wanting to be the fifth member of the quartet).
With rigor and science
Premier album original en 1996, Moments of jazz (Filipacchi), thus prefaced by Jean-Louis Ginibre: “Christian knows how to seize the moment. He has the timing of great photographers. He has the necessary authority to express himself, but he also knows how to give way to the talent of the artists he photographs. » He places his photos in most magazines and newspapers (including The world), as well as in the specialized press. His collaboration withInternational Herald Tribune, with Mike Zwerin, musician and writer, will last more than twenty years. After Moments of jazz will follow three original albums: Jazz Meetings (2003), Zappa in France (2003), Black and Soul (2004), plus Guitar. 160 legendary portraits (2005).
Illustrations of discs, exhibitions, his work testifies, with rigor and science. John McLaughlin, interviewed: “Last year, I spent more time with Christian Rose than with my family. » Contacted in 1968 in New York, the guitarist will be one of his “models”until their last meeting, in Boulogne, in 2022.
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