PIERRE JAHAN / CAVE BOUTEILLES CLE BOUGIE ORIGINAL SIGNED ARGENTIC PHOTO Ca 1940
The second crucial meeting is that with the great photographer Emmanuel Sougez. Then director of the photographic department of the magazine L’Illustration, Emmanuel Sougez encouraged Pierre Jahan to make photography his profession. In 1936, Pierre Jahan joined Emmanuel Sougez in the Rectangle adventure, “a group of notorious practitioners, In 1934, Pierre Jahan’s photographs dotted the pages of Plaisir de France, of which he was one of the main contributors until the end of the magazine in 1974. At the same time, he began to exhibit with Ergy Landau, Laure Albin Guillot, François Kollar, Rogi André, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray… In December 1941, Pierre Jahan undertook a clandestine report on the statues taken down on the orders of Vichy, to support the German war effort. After the R.