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Article: A Day with Picasso: Twenty-four Photographs by Jean Cocteau.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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August 12, 1916 was a mild day in Paris, with bright sunlight shadowed intermittently by cirrus clouds. It was a day that Picasso chose to dally with nine friends, some old and some new, in the cafes of Montparnasse. It also happens to have been a day when Jean Cocteau, a new friend, joined the bande and brought along his mother's Kodak.
Thanks to the sleuthing of Billy Kluver, an engineer who participated in the art and technology experiments of the '60s and has recently devoted his talents to describing the glory years of the Left Bank, we know exactly when these twenty-four photos were taken and apparently everything this crew did. Kluver has gathered the full ...