"Bettina by Bettina" 1965 (Inscribed)

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Bettina

Inscribed to Gordon, who, after all those years, remained a great friend, and a wonderful person. Bettina-Le 7 Avril … Read more Bettina

Inscribed to Gordon, who, after all those years, remained a great friend, and a wonderful person. Bettina-Le 7 Avril 1990-New York-

Photographer Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.

Translated by Marguerite Barnett.

[259] pp.

Michael Joseph

1965

8 3/4" x 5 7/8"

The French model Bettina had three glamorous perches from which to observe the mid-20th Century. She modeled for Jacques Fath and later went to work for Givenchy, who named his first collection after her. She was also the longtime girlfriend of the playboy prince Aly Khan, whom she calls “the most intensely alive of all mortals.” This memoir reveals all, including the tragic car accident in which Aly lost his life but she escaped with minor injuries. There was never an American edition, and the English edition is uncommon.

Simone Micheline Bodin (8 May 1925 – 3 March 2015), known professionally as Bettina or Bettina Graziani, was a French fashion model of the 1940s and 1950s and an early muse to the fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy. She was a designer of knitwear and, later, a poet and composer See less