A Moment in Photographic History:
Gilles Caron was born July 8, 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Caron spent three years as a paratrooper fighting a war he opposed in Algeria. In 1967, he co-founded the Gamma photo agency. Caron covered Isreal’s Six-Day War, fighting in Vietnam and Biafra, the 1968 student demonstrations in Paris, as well as riots in Northern Ireland, anti-Soviet demonstrations in Prague, and the Toubou uprising against the central government in Chad in 1970. Caron went missing in a Khmer Rouge-controlled area of Cambodia.
A Photographic Quote of Note:
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. – - – - – - – Edward Steichen
