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JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT: TWENTY FIVE ICONS OF AMERICA @ Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
Miami, FL. August 23rd 1972.Outside of the 1972 30th Republican Convention, during President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, demonstrators wearing costumes and makeup perform scenes of death and suffering in opposition to the Vietnam War. Several thousand Women’s Lib protesters led by Jane Fonda, having just returned from her North Vietnam tour, and the Vietnam Veterans also protested. No clashes with police were reported.
JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT: TWENTY FIVE ICONS OF AMERICA
NOVEMBER 3 – DECEMBER 12, 2020
“For more than three decades, starting in 1964, Jean-Pierre Laffont travelled all fifty states seeking to document as wide of a range of compelling American stories, and he also photographed celebrities both French and American along with all the politicians of the times. He spent eight years at the White House as a foreign correspondent and photographed several presidents. He produced in-depth photo essays of the rise of the World Trade Center, the gangs in the Bronx, and the violence on 42nd Street.”
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