The only photos of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier’s first meeting were taken by Edward Quinn. For more than 20 years, this photographer scoured the French Riviera, recording on film the all-night parties of numerous European and American celebrities visiting France on vacation, for the duration of a summer or just a film shoot. In the happy story told by his photos, the main characters are Cary Grant, Aristotle Onassis and Jane Fonda…Occasionally making friends with his subjects (he was very close to Pablo

Tender is the night...

Throughout the entire decade between 1950 and 1960, the Irish photographer Edward Quinn immortalized stars on vacation on the French Riviera. A new book of his work is a retrospective of a golden age.

By Marine Normand - Photos Edward Quinn - October 11, 2011

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Picasso until the end of his life), Quinn passed away in 1997 leaving behind him more than 10,000 photographs from this fabulous era, where each night was a new, unforgettable experience. His works remain the only witness to the sublime dresses of Grace Kelly spinning around the luxury hotels of Nice , Cannes and Saint Tropez – before she became a princess. This book revives with nostalgia an era that we wish we knew, its narrative made of black-and-white transcriptions of improbable meetings between legends, under the Mediterranean’s luminous sun.

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Riviera Cocktail

by Edward Quinn

(Te Neues)

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Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant

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