I bought a book from the Children's Society charity shop in Calverton on Tuesday.
Before I write my narrative for this photo , I hope I'm not breaking any copyright rules. It's a photo of a page from the book , I'm not trying to profit from it !
Anyway the book, Riviera Cocktail, by Irish Photographer Edward Quinn, documents life of the Côte d’Azur , France in the 1950's
Quinn photographed Film stars, starlets, painters, sculptors, gamblers, ex-kings, jazz musicians, nobility, shipping magnates, directors, chansonniers, politicians, race car drivers, pin-up girls, conductors, writers, prima donnas, playboys, everybody really.
The photos are in black and white, shot on Kodak Retina, a Rollei, a Leica IIIf, Rolleiflex 2.8 or 3.5 and finally in 1956 a Leica M3
The photo you see is Audrey Hepburn and her husband being photographed by two young ladies in 1956. A cracking bit of social documentary.
A cracking page from the book, right enough! My mum loved Audrey Hepburn. What a great book to come across. I was intrigued about the next photo in the book too, taken in Cagnes-Sur-Mer.
You chose the best page of the book, At the time Audrey was at the peak of her career and I can understand people wanting to take pictures of them. It would have been very nice to see the photo taken by your late father's Leica.
@marlboromaam thanks Mags , lots of American actors are in the book
@philippar Philippa , thank you , the book is full of some fab photos