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Article: MARK GROSSET ; Photographic agent at Rapho
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2006
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The life of a photographer's agent is often a thankless one.
There are many prizes devoted to celebrating their clients, but
there are no prizes for agents; if there were, Mark Grosset,
Director of the French photo agency Rapho from 1991 to 2001, would
have received laurels by the armful. He was involved for his entire
life with documentary and journalistic photography, his passion for
the art and the business of photography never wavering.
In 1946, a decade before he was born, his father Raymond Grosset
founded Rapho in Paris. Quintessentially French, the agency
represents a style and approach to magazine and street photography,
which in the 1950s and 1960s was to influence the whole ...