The rock-star image is built on behind-the-scenes photos: Mick Jagger in his bath; The Beatles on a ski slope; James Dean with cigarette in mouth… R\u00e9gis Besse is the founder of Galerie Verdeau in the Saint-Ouen flea market. He also has an uncanny knack for unearthing that one offbeat photo you can’t find anywhere else; the one that says far more than the raft of glossy pictures that pepper the pages of conventional publications. R\u00e9gis has now teamed up with Le Pigalle on a project designed to capture the energy of the neighbourhood in its heyday. “You get that holiday feel and the classic cars in Peltier’s old photos of Montmartre. Then there is that underground aspect you find in press archives and the unique snapshots of a backstage journalist catching the likes of Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and Blondie in a hazy, alcohol-fuelled fog,” explains R\u00e9gis, who describes himself\u2014not without a glint in his eye\u2014as a ‘picture peddler”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The rock-star image is built on behind-the-scenes photos: Mick Jagger in his bath; The Beatles on a ski slope; James Dean with cigarette in mouth… R\u00e9gis Besse is the founder of Galerie Verdeau in the Saint-Ouen flea market. He also has an uncanny knack for unearthing that one offbeat photo you can’t find anywhere else; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musique"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n