Aerial view of Empire State Building, Manhattan, NY, 1969
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in.
$2,500
Chasing the Jazz Mobile, Harlem, New York City, July 1966
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,000
Martin Luther King, Jr with the UN Building reflecting in his eye, NYC, NY, April 15th, 1967
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in.
$2,000
Robert Kennedy campaigning, Brooklyn, NY, December 1st, 1967
Archival Pigment Print
16x 20 in.
$2,000
Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, CT, August 1st & 2nd, 1970
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in.
$2,000
Sam Ervin with the Watergate Committee (at a hearing), Washington, DC, August 1973
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
Savage Skulls street gang walking their turf, Bronx, NY, July 20th, 1972
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,500
Savage Skulls street gang play-fighting, Bronx, NY, July 20th, 1972
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,000
Tomb Prison Hands from behind the bars, New York, Sept. 1972
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$3,000
Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, CT, August 1st & 2nd, 1970
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,500
"Summer of Love" at the Rock Festival, Watkins Glen, NY, July 28th, 1973
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in.
$2,500
Apollo XI launch, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 16th, 1969
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,500
Yale students protest in support of Black Panthers on trial, New Haven, CT May 2nd, 1970
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,000
Anti-Vietnam War protestor, Miami, FL, August 23rd, 1972
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,500
Muhammad Ali menacing Joe Frazier before rematch, Madison Square Garden, NY, January 23rd, 1974
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,500
Children and Guns Instructor holding kid's hand with a gun closeup, College Station, Texas
May 23, 1981
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in.
$2,000
Born in 1935, Jean-Pierre Laffont studied photography at Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland before immigrating to the United States in 1965 where he began his career as a photojournalist. After joining the Gamma agency, he started to cover political and social movements such as the riots against the war in Vietnam or the Civil Rights Movement. In 1973, alongside his wife Eliane, he co-founded Sygma Photo News, which rose to the top of the list of press agencies.
During the next three decades, Jean-Pierre Laffont became a White House Correspondent, covered the Watergate scandal and carried out numerous political and social reportages throughout the United States as well as internationally in Eastern Europe, the USSR, China, Japan, India, Africa, and other countries. In 1973, alongside his wife Eliane, he co-founded Sygma Photo News, which rose to the top of the list of press agencies.
His images have appeared in such major international magazines as TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, Paris Match, Figaro, and Stern, among several others. In 1979, he received World Press Photo Award’s first prize for his seminal photographic essay on the subject of child labor around the world—the first of its kind. In 1996, he was honored with a retrospective of his work at Visa Pour L’Image and was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The two most recent books by Jean-Pierre Laffont are New York Up and Down, released in August 2017, and Turbulent America 1960-1990, released in 2014, both published by Glitterati.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Moscow Photo Biennale, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
La Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (MEP) Paris, France
Tri Postal, Lille, France
Musee de L’Arsenal, Metz, France
Eglise Saint-Vincent, Merignac, France
