Edward Quinn: A Cote d'Azur Album (Scalo Publishers) - Hardcover

The Cote d'Azur has long been a playground of the beautiful, the famous, and the very rich but it was only in the 1950s and 1960s that it achieved high status. In those two decades, a small band of photographers created the myth of the Cote d'Azur as an oasis of glamour, a meeting place for the favoured few. This book features Edward Quinn's photographs of such people as Picasso, Brigitte Bardot, Le Corbusier, Maria Callas, Winston Churchill, Grace Kelly and Prince Aly Khan. Quinn was the photographer-as-accomplice rather than the photographer-as-critic, celebrating the hedonistic elegance of Cote d'Azur life.