Photo of Eastbourne Pier as an exercise in style. I’m seeking to emulate the postcards of the French company Yvon, I received many of these sent by my Father while he was working at marine biology research stations in the 1960s. Yvon postcards then were dramatic colour or high gloss black and white, the image quality was far above that which could be achieved by holiday snapping. Yvon’s postcard France featured landscapes and architecture which fuelled my enthusiasm as a junior traveller as well as a schoolboy photographer shooting, developing and printing my own photographs well before I was a teenager.
Yvon was the trade name of photographer Pierre Yves-Petit (1886-1969), he sold collections of his poetic black and white photographs of Paris renowned for their sultry skies, which are now traded in the art world; his postcards can still be found on market stalls.
Créations Yvon turnover calendar 1984