Emile Savitry (1903-1967) estudió Bellas Artes e inició su carrera como pintor cercano al surrealismo en París. Sin embargo, a raíz de un viaje a las Islas del Pacífico en el que trabajó como fotógrafo para una película de Murnau, pasó a dedicarse de lleno a la fotografía, retratando el ambiente intelectual y artístico del París de los años 30 y 40.
Over a period of some 20 years, he captured the vibrant Paris artistic and cultural scene of which he was part, beginning as a surrealist painter, but also the daily lives of Parisians and the capital’s neighbourhoods, notably Pigalle and Montparnasse. For Rapho, he covered the massive arrival in France of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, and was later a regular contributor to fashion magazines Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
Charlie Chaplin at the Palais de la Mutualité events hall in the Latin Quarter, 1949. Chaplin, who had recently made Monsieur Verdoux and who would next begin Limelight, was being photographed on stage for a poster for a British television film.
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