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Gamma/Sygma
Droit de réponse d’Hubert Henrotte

Publié le 14 mai 2013 par la rédaction

Hubert Henrotte a écrit cette missive recommandée à Jean-Jacques Naudet, directeur de la rédaction du Journal de la Photographie, à la suite de la publication du dossier concernant la scission des associés de Gamma et la création de Sygma. Dossier publié le 14 mai 2013.

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Gamma/Sygma: The Fall, How Corbis scrapped Sygma

Publié le 14 mai 2013 par Michel Puech

Judge Van Ruymbeke from the financial division of the Court of Paris recently made headlines during the affaire Cahuzac (named after the former official of the French Ministry of Finance). He also has on his desk a less publicized case: the end of the Sygma agency. It is the story of millions of photographs covering the final decades of the 20th century.

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Gamma/Sygma: Hubert Henrotte, No More Scoops

Publié le 14 mai 2013 par Michel Puech

For 30 years, he was at the head of a group of photographers hunting for scoops. They made the covers of the world’s biggest magazines. Then the meticulous manager of Sygma’s interests was carried away, not by the revolution he had anticipated, but by his weakness. Voir la suite →

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Gamma/Sygma: Monique Kouznetzoff, The Muse

Publié le 14 mai 2013 par Michel Puech

“to have enemies on should be worthy of it,” said Roger Thérond, according to Hubert Henrotte. “Monique,” as almost everyone called her, has a few among the photographers at Gamma and Sygma, but none among the celebrities she has had photographed for more than 40 years.

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Gamma/Sygma – Alain Dupuis: Dawn of the conquerors

Publié le 14 mai 2013 par Michel Puech

For forty years, Alain Dupuis sold photos, first for APIS, then for the Sygma agency, where he was joined by Claude Duverger, Tony Rubichon and others. The founding of Sygma was the starting gun for the fierce competition among Gamma, Sygma and Sipa Press, founded the same year as Sygma by Göksin Sipahioglu. The agencies managed in just a few years to drive up the price of news photos to outrageous sums.

Between 1985 and 1995, they created what has been called The Golden Age of Photojournalism, where photographers and sellers got “filthy rich” through real and false scoops and taking foolish risks. According to several witnesses, “the parking lots at Sygma were the first in France to have Porsches, Jaguars and Ferraris.”

This success made their downfall all the more bitter.

Michel Puech

Génération Sygma