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Riviera Cocktail (2007)

No other photographer has captured the far-flung social and cultural life of the Cote dï¾’Azur in the fifties with such intelligent verve and remarkably gentle irony as the Irishman Edward Quinn (1920 ï¾– 1997).For over a decade, Quinn showed a perfect blend of persistence and discretion in his daring exploration of the social jungle on the French Riviera. In this iridescent epicenter of high life and big business, of art, music and literature, he managed to discover incomparable gems. Riviera Cocktail encompasses an entire age, tracing the path followed by Edward Quinn from his early pin-up photography to his unconventional portrayal of all the great stars and, finally, to his relationships, as a photographer, with Pablo Picasso and Georg Baselitz.