Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave

In the late 1950s and early 1960s French New Wave cinema exploded onto international screens with films like Les quatre cents coups, A bout de souffle and Jules et Jim. They were radical, artistic, original and most importantly set up the director as a creative genius; at the forefront were Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. In the photographs of Raymond Cauchetier we bear witness to the great artistic genius that was central to the making of these films. Cauchetier's photographs are as much a part of the New Wave as the films themselves. This is the first book published in English featuring the New Wave film photographys of Raymond Cauchetier.