Johnny Hallyday, Vichy shirt, rolled up sleeves to the biceps and tired look, lets himself be looked at by the curious, sitting on the terrace of the Hôtel de France in Royan. It’s summer, a parasol is planted, we are at the end of the meal, the table is not rid. Children in the background pose, as much fascinated by the star and by the photographer operating. Johnny solar and melancholy, it is one of the clichés of an exhibition visible all summer and until March 2026, which plunges us back in the Royan of the 60s. A city and an era seen through the objective of Jean-Pierre Boudon: from 1959 to 1964, machine gun the stars was his summer job for the daily life South Westbefore he joined the world of TV in Paris, the Buttes-Chaumont studio and television news on Cognacq-Jay Street.
For a long time, his negatives slept at the bottom of a garage in crystal paper. “Royan in the 1960s, embodies carelessness and joie de vivre. Jean-Pierre Boudon captures the essence of this time through his shots »explain the organizers of the exhibition at the Royan Museum ….
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